« All Country Quotes · Ralph Waldo Emerson's Page
Country Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The city is recruited from the country.
- No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so…
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,…
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they…
- One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."
- America is a country of young men.
- It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed…
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
- Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
- The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
- A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
- I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their…
- The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the…
- Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; - and…
More Country Quotes
- 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