Country Quotes · Page 217

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

— Pierre de Coubertin

I've always been one to want to represent my country. I've done it on a few occasions and I've had tremendous success.

— P.K. Subban

Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.

— Ariel Sharon

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are united in that we want what's best for our country and our children.

— Trish Regan

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

— Robert Mugabe

If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend…

— Candace Bushnell

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following…

— Bill Bryson

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon…

— Isabel Wilkerson

It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did…

— Kurt Braunohler

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and…

— Rick Perry

One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals…

— Jay Asher

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was…

— Taylor Swift

Leftists put in these emotional, illogical, and irrelevant terms, and they make people's hearts melt, "He's so wonderful. He cares about people."…

— Rush Limbaugh

In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty…

— George H. W. Bush

We have a violence problem in America. And no one is having a debate about the violence problem. And I think this…

— Marco Rubio

We, as Canadians, have no hesitation lecturing the rest of the world on what they should be doing, how they shouldn't discriminate,…

— Paul Martin

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New…

— Chuck Berry

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I…

— Graham Colton

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

— Margaret Thatcher

With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.

— Stephen Kinzer

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

— Anonymous

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know…

— George W. Bush

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an…

— Lev Grossman

Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.

— Pramila Jayapal

Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part.

— Jamelle Bouie

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

— Hillary Clinton

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

The entire country is rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is no alternative to Modiji.

— Yogi Adityanath

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

— Alex Berenson

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

— George Weah

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

— James Joyce

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been…

— Jeffrey Sachs