Country Quotes · Page 262

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

— Alexander Pushkin

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

— Vladimir Lenin

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

— Kendrick Meek

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

— Josh Bernstein

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

— John Burroughs

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

— Robbie Robertson

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

— Chris Murphy

“I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

— Abraham Lincoln

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent…

— W. Kamau Bell

The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said,…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea. Enough people have seen the show. I mean, I'm in Patagonia and…

— Boyd Holbrook

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the…

— Meg Whitman

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may…

— Hans Blix

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for…

— Samuel Johnson

During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All…

— Daniel Buren

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is…

— Lucas Papademos

It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The…

— Mao Zedong

My mother worked in a cookie factory. My father worked in a factory. So anyone that dares begrudge what I have, just…

— Liberace

I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures…

— Deepak Chopra

There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal... the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more…

— Wayne Dyer

Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of…

— John A. Stormer

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

— Charles Olson

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

— Daniel Gillies

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be president in a disreputable country

— Khem Veasna

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't…

— Nan Goldin

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

— Khaled Mashal

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

— Marty Stuart

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

— Jose Rizal

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

— David Brooks

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

— Shirin Ebadi

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was…

— Martie Maguire

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

— Blake Shelton

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much…

— Lionel Richie

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

— David McCallum

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

— Henry A. Kissinger

To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were…

— Sam Hunt

I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.

— Eric Garcetti