Country Quotes · Page 338

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

— Tyler Perry

Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

— Deneen Borelli

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

— George Santayana

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

— Ahmed Yassin

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

— Taslima Nasrin

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country,…

— Benjamin Spock

My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was…

— Marty Stuart

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this…

— Leonard Boswell

We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position…

— Laurent Lamothe

I'd like to find and vote for a candidate, whether Republican or Democrat... that has the best interest in the health and…

— Erin Brockovich

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to…

— George Osborne

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common…

— Bobby Scott

Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond…

— William Hazlitt

Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all…

— Mary Robinson

[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more…

— Paul Washer

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers…

— Ray Bradbury

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world…

— Cornel West

[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach…

— Russell Means

We have asylum laws that provide humanitarian relief. Those who qualify under those laws are entitled to the relief that we extend.…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

On top of that, illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year. And this is what we get. For…

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump can, for example, imply the threat that federal business will be withheld from some of companies. That's possibly dangerous precedent.…

— Greg Ip

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a…

— Mo Farah

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

— Rashid Khalidi

When I began my career, I had films with the biggest film-makers in the country.

— Raveena Tandon

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

— Cheech Marin

“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.”

— Bill Bryson

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut…

— John Steinbeck

People across the country want to do something - anything - to make sure progress and hope and love and inclusion win…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

— Laura Bell Bundy

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf),

— George Galloway

If there can be Muslim and Christian countries, why can't there be a Hindu country?

— Ravi Kishan

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and…

— George Soros

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so…

— Clint Eastwood

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

— Eula Biss

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

— Aldus Manutius

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

— Will Rogers

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

— Hubert H. Humphrey