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
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
“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 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
“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
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country. — Roger Ailes 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
Growing up I really loved Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Everything But The Girl. I listened to a lot of really… — Aimee Osbourne 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
“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
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
“And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past,… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
I grew up playing guitar in the late Nineties, early 2000s, so a very acoustic-driven pop-rock era, and then in college, I… — Trixie Mattel 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
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry.… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“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
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
“Everything around and about me looked so like the Old Country,” he wrote. Landing on the docks, “Irish porters seized upon my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We rode through a three-thousand-year-old country, saw the ruined capital of the Queen of Sheba and the underground red-rock city of Lalibela,… — Rosita Forbes 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
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
“I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building… — Alex Kudera 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
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
I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is… — Mitski Copy Share Image
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
