Country Quotes · Page 131

I want a Conservative party that sounds like the people of this country, that listens, that puts its hands up when it…

— Heidi Allen

I want to make sure that the country that I was raised in and the opportunities that I had as a child…

— Leslyn Lewis

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

— John McDonnell

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

— John Boyd Orr

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

— Stephon Marbury

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

— George Osborne

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

— Deana Carter

I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges,…

— Junot Diaz

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in…

— Giles Foden

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure…

— Andrew Natsios

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly…

— Harbhajan Singh

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does,…

— Roger Waters

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where…

— Edward Abbey

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld.…

— John James Audubon

My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a…

— Garry Kasparov

Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers…

— Quentin Crisp

Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks…

— Marine Le Pen

When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who…

— Stephanie Coontz

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.…

— David Rockefeller

That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

— Justin Simien

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.

— James May

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a…

— William R. Ferris

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

— Chinua Achebe

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

— David Puttnam

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

— Sarah McBride

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little…

— Ambrose Bierce

We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

— Brett Eldredge

I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller…

— Bill Maher

I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.

— Mark Goulston

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

— Raul Castro

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

— Eric Liu

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

— Steve Bannon

Instead of caring about the country, people end up serving their party. I think people understand that, and I think they hate…

— Ken Wahl

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

— Ibrahim Rugova