My Own Country Quotes
28 My Own Country quotes by 24 unique authors
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
— Nicolas Cage
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for…
— Winston Churchill
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We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in…
— Barack Obama
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave…
— Hillary Clinton
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I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and…
— Penelope Lively
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
— Thomas Jefferson
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When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that…
— Thomas Merton
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For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the…
— Barack Obama
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If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would…
— Robert Clive
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I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
— Freida Pinto
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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that…
— George Carey
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I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.
— Gilles Duceppe
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In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the…
— Italo Calvino
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I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
— Asne Seierstad
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It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
— Asne Seierstad
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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
— George McGovern
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...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.
— Hasan M. Elahi
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I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.
— Shashi Tharoor
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I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from…
— Hosni Mubarak
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet:…
— Jonathan Coe
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I don't know for sure. I'll definitely go another four years and then see what happens. I would love to swim in New York in…
— Michael Phelps
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I have these fans from Portugal and a couple of times they have travelled around the world to follow me, and one time they brought…
— Nicole Scherzinger
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