Country Quotes · Page 254

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

— Tiny Tim

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

— Marq de Villiers

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

— Pat Buchanan

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

— Andreas Schleicher

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

— Fawzia Koofi

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

— K. D. Lang

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of…

— Sarah Harrison

When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only…

— Andrew Solomon

Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with…

— Malcolm X

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the…

— Robert Klein

I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play…

— Sam Hunt

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater…

— Pico Iyer

I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want…

— David Wessel

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back…

— Bill Maher

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to…

— Ted Lieu

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited…

— Diane Ackerman

Mitt Romney is talking about the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have to find common ground to address very real challenges…

— Rob Portman

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…

— Lev Grossman

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their…

— John D'Agata

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black…

— Diahann Carroll

I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that,…

— Zosia Mamet

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

— Adam Rex

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

— Matthew Desmond

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

— Donald Trump

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

— Hun Sen

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

— Bruce Springsteen

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully…

— Douglas Wilder

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

— Henry Mancini

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

— Roger Ailes

I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.

— Zoe Buckman

If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

As a child you dream of playing for your country, but when it really happens you do not know how to react.

— Ajinkya Rahane

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America…

— Margaret Thatcher

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the…

— Joanna Garcia

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax…

— Bill Foster

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

— Paul Gillmor

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

— Stonewall Jackson