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Country Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball…
- I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever…
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
- All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history.…
- Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last…
- I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost…
- But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
- So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me…
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood