Country Quotes · Page 253

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

— Alan Keyes

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

— James Woods

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

— Oliver Tambo

I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.

— Mahathir Mohamad

I love my country and I hope when all of the things are done, I want to go back to my country…

— Enes Kanter

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

— Saad Hariri

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

— Blake Shelton

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet…

— Ted Rall

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every…

— Bret Stephens

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel…

— George Jones

When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And…

— Gary Allan

Chicago is definitely more of a country place now. The friends who I thought never in a million years would like country…

— Brett Eldredge

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us…

— Edmund Burke

Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was…

— Wong Kar-wai

People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really…

— Bill McKibben

Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is…

— Henry David Thoreau

To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so…

— Marco Polo

Everyone wants clean air and clean water, but my hope is that we will not regulate it to the point where we…

— Bob Latta

Whatever is going on wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump. He's not been there. He has not…

— Rush Limbaugh

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of…

— Lin Yutang

The Statue of Liberty was never meant to be a symbol of immigration. It was meant to be a symbol of liberty…

— Rush Limbaugh

Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the…

— Graham Swift

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

— Jalal Talabani

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!

— Darrell Scott

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

— Chip Esten

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

— Emily Blackwell

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

— George Clooney

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

— Louis O. Kelso

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

— William Kristol

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

— Gabby Barrett

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

— Geraldine Ferraro

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

— Jon Bernthal

An opportunity to play for your country is never senseless and especially when the games are competitive.

— Eniola Aluko

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

— William E. Conway, Jr

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

— Prince Philip

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili