Country Quotes · Page 282

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.”

— Munia Khan

I think our country is the best country in the world, you know, but there's just obviously a lot of things that…

— Breanna Stewart

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

— Betsy DeVos

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or…

— Bernie Sanders

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

— Ben Bernanke

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around…

— Brendan Gleeson

It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down…

— Prashant Bhushan

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music.…

— Shane Filan

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of…

— Ella Baker

We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask…

— Barack Obama

Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when…

— Jimmy Fallon

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in…

— Henry A. Wallace

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against…

— Ricardo Lagos

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in…

— Oscar Wilde

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My…

— Dule Hill

If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor…

— Daryl Davis

Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a…

— Bret Weinstein

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't…

— Brad Stine

The leaders of the Women's March, arguably the most prominent feminists in the country, have some chilling ideas and associations. Far from…

— Bari Weiss

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…

— Waverley Root

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country…

— Mike Rowe

I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.

— Mickey Arthur

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

— Daniel Schorr

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

— Ming-Na Wen

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

— William J. Clinton

Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

— Alan Greenspan

We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.

— Anonymous

Peace in a country does not mean absence of war but when things are in order.

— Anonymous

You know, the murder - the number of murders in our country this year [2016], went up more than they have in 45 years.

— Donald Trump

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans…

— Mitt Romney

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

— Mencius

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

— George Strait

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is…

— Bruno Dumont

I think corporations should be asked to pay a greater share into the success of this country.

— Beto O'Rourke

I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.

— Stefano Gabbana