Country Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Knows Men Rivers Valleys
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Don't cry me a river because you've done enough as it is hope your happy — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
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