Country Quotes · Page 311

Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and…

— John Cho

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

— Donald Rumsfeld

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming…

— Donald Trump

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I…

— Kristin Chenoweth

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

— Iris Chang

It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.

— M. S. Swaminathan

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

— Howard Zinn

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I…

— Vince Gill

Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole…

— Ira Glass

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground,…

— Barack Obama

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both…

— Anonymous

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a…

— Jim Ramstad

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its…

— Bainbridge Colby

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25…

— Dave Barry

In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art,…

— Marguerite Duras

I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit…

— Desmond Tutu

And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may…

— Geraldine Brooks

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the…

— Jamel Shabazz

You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this…

— John Kasich

Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000…

— Natalie Massenet

What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be…

— Margaret D. Klein

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,…

— Annia Ciezadlo

We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success…

— Michael Bloomberg

Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.

— Paul Ryan

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

— Marty Stuart

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

— Jay Leno

My mom was always playing Elvis around the house or ZZ Top, so there was always rock-n-roll and country being played.

— Hank Williams III

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly

— Guillermo del Toro

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

— Leon Kass

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.

— Brad Paisley

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

— Bertrand Russell

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

— Dave Barry

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, but when I was about 12 or 13, I fell in…

— B. J. Thomas

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

— Bob Hope

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

— Loukas Tsoukalis

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

— Kane Brown