Country Quotes · Page 205

I took every opportunity you can imagine. I played every honky-tonk talent search, every kind of Colgate Country Showdown, you name it.

— Lainey Wilson

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the…

— Karren Brady

There is nothing more beautiful than being able to represent my country.

— Sergio Ramos

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and…

— Noam Chomsky

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be…

— Confucius

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

— Paula Broadwell

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our…

— Brendan Fletcher

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

— Ronald Reagan

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer…

— Conan O'Brien

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

— Troy Polamalu

I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the…

— Anonymous

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it…

— MJ Hegar

Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of…

— Michael Kiwanuka

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is…

— Townsend Harris

It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being…

— Ivica Dacic

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed…

— Amy Irving

I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the…

— Barack Obama

In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick…

— Pete Gill

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general…

— Limmy

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can…

— Terry Pratchett

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.…

— Ray Bradbury

America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who-with their hands,…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small…

— Karen Mills

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably…

— Tony Judt

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly…

— Rohinton Mistry

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was…

— June Squibb

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

— James Cronin

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

— Rex Murphy

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

My dream would be to have 50 people in a show with each person from a different country.

— Michael Arden

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

— Lucy Hale

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

— Philip Levine

I always want young Indians to succeed. Our country has a lot of potential, and it needs to be tapped into.

— The Great Khali

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.

— Ram Nath Kovind

The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

— McGeorge Bundy

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

— Karl Marx

There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.

— Clint Smith

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

— Noah Webster

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

— Frank Stallone