“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“Here, he felt like a stranger in a strange- and extremely seductive- land. In contrast to the places of his past, Bella… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile direct your attention to the three gentlemen at the door: they are conversing. 1st Gent. — Who’s the man of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“All across Italy, as Parasecoli tells me, food is used to identify who is Italian and who is not. But dig a… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
“Oh, it is true enough. I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb (an old country saying, not… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't… — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
In a race between common sense, logic and education, my money would be on the good old country boys. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
“At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old… — Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Copy Share Image
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country… — King George V Copy Share Image
“My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“I’m going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image