Country Quotes · Page 139

I have always said being part of the team and winning a medal for my country was my first preference.

— P. R. Sreejesh

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

— Iris DeMent

Every athlete wants to represent their country or region in the Olympics.

— Jackson Wang

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

— Amber Rudd

I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.

— Steve Prefontaine

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

— Yehuda Amichai

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the…

— John Salazar

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is…

— Paul Sadler

Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place…

— Jerry Lawler

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday…

— Ida B. Wells

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies…

— John Moody

I want to remind you of one thing, which is, when I look around the world and look at the long-term economic…

— Henry Paulson

I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries…

— Barack Obama

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country…

— Ari Fleischer

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go…

— Emmylou Harris

Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time,…

— Richard A. Falk

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely…

— Jimmy Webb

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay…

— Scoot McNairy

This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises,…

— Shashi Tharoor

And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people…

— Henry Giroux

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the…

— Italo Calvino

The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand…

— Ha-Joon Chang

In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's…

— Judit Polgar

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom.…

— Lyn Nofziger

North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

— Lewis Black

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are…

— David Nabarro

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

— Romain Rolland

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

— Robert Redford

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

— Christopher Dodd

I think that our country would probably be better-served if we had people that were wearing work boots... crafting legislation.

— Madison Cawthorn

The Philippines is unfortunately not a football country - basketball is more popular.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk

— Margaret Chase Smith

We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

— William Shakespeare

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

— Nicholas Hammond

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.

— Michael Kennedy

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

— James Laughlin

What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs,…

— Sam Palladio

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

— John Quincy Adams