My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house. — The Iron Sheik Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“In this country we get stuck with taxes, but in the old country we used to get stuck with bayonets.” — James A. Michener 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's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music… — Miranda Lambert 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
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff.… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to… — Laura Bell Bundy 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
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
One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the… — Richard Mercer Dorson Copy Share Image
“These shirts are perfectly serviceable.” I rolled my eyes. “Serviceable? Anyan, I get it that you’re utilitarian. If we were in the… — Nicole Peeler 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
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
“When I looked around the neighborhood, I found out that kids wasn’t the only crooks. We was surrounded by crooks, and plenty… — Martin Gosch Copy Share Image
“When I got back home I told my grandmother everything, detail by detail, and she savored it. I had been to the… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I drive your truck I roll every window down and I burn up every back road in this town I find a… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
“3. Alone The long march up the fulvous ridgebacks to The marches, the frontiers of difference -- Where flesh marches with bone,… — L.E. Sissman 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
“One of the special delights of my childhood was to go and see the cases of illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum,… — Alan Watts 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
“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
“Cassandra continued her obstacle course along the wall, hoping to find a gate or a door, anything permitting entry. The sun was… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country. — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“Gone are the days when the old country doctor would drive out to your house and amputate your infected leg for a… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country. — Shooter Jennings 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
Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I… — Petra Haden 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 base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
“I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
