Country Quotes · Page 134

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

— Alice Munro

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

— Randy Travis

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

— Joe Elliott

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

— Alain Dehaze

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

— Chad Hurley

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at…

— Judith Ellen Foster

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for…

— John Kasich

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and…

— Hillary Clinton

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech…

— Candy Crowley

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to…

— Gilles Deleuze

I love 'Nuts in May.' A simple tale about a couple of well-meaning campers, determined to have a nice time in the…

— Tim Key

The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems.…

— Joseph Stiglitz

So worried was I our country was in danger of total breakdown, I felt I had to do something - so instead…

— Heidi Allen

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with…

— Emmylou Harris

Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my…

— Wilfried Zaha

The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a…

— James Lane Allen

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha...…

— Keegan Allen

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can…

— Thomas Jefferson

An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which…

— David Cameron

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they…

— Ali Smith

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are…

— Wess Stafford

Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are…

— Lundy Bancroft

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the…

— Arundhati Roy

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

— Thabo Mbeki

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

— Tom Douglas

Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Racism is alive and well in this country; we have to learn how to love someone who doesn't look like us.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.

— Patrick Leahy

In this country, I don't get the respect. And that's not me being stupid, or bitter about it.

— James DeGale

I don't have a personal life. Whatever I have is for the country and society.

— Yogi Adityanath

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

— Emanuel Cleaver

I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

— Jennifer Warnes

She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her…

— Andy Griggs

In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

— Jacob Zuma

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

— Joshua Wong

At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads!

— India Arie

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

— Charles Boustany

I knew that I was gonna play really well my senior year. And I was going into it thinking I was one…

— Joe Burrow

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

— Jackie Chan