Country Quotes · Page 330

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

— Toni Morrison

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

— Chief Joseph

The prime minister does not represent a particular political party; he is a representative of the whole country.

— Rajnath Singh

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real…

— Marine Le Pen

A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.

— Shooter Jennings

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

— Ashraf Ghani

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

— Sallust

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of…

— Octavia Butler

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town…

— Ann Richards

My wedding dress was featured by 'Vogue' and 'American Town and Country,' and from there, people started to come to us because…

— Emilia Wickstead

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer,…

— Eartha Kitt

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community.…

— Stokely Carmichael

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from…

— Mao Zedong

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today…

— Rachel Maddow

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to…

— Darell Hammond

The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a…

— Jean Baudrillard

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England…

— Rachel Cusk

It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out…

— Utah Phillips

I've always thought, "I could probably write one of these country songs and send them to these places and make up this…

— Josh Jones

I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my…

— Dar Williams

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me…

— Taylor Swift

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

— Joseph Heller

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

— Sinclair Lewis

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

— Will Rogers

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

— Isak Dinesen

I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.

— Ayelet Shaked

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy…

— Jon Pardi

We have to stick up for ourselves as people and we have to stick up for our country when we're being mistreated,…

— Donald Trump

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

— Mo Ibrahim

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

— Jules Renard

America doesn't make product anymore. You have other countries devalue their currencies. They make it impossible.

— Donald Trump

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so…

— George Jones

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

— Ernest L. Boyer

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always…

— Johnny Van Zant

If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you…

— Mohsin Hamid

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.

— Joe Lonsdale