Old Country Quotes
26 Old Country quotes by 23 unique authors
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Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big…
— Margaret Cho
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One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the…
— Unknown Author
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Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to…
— Unknown Author
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India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and…
— Rajiv Gandhi
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell…
— Betty Smith
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much…
— Anita Desai
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
— Henry James
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France is an old country that needs to wake up.
— Melanie Laurent
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
— Bob Hope
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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige…
— Pierre Laval
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I…
— Will Rogers
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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not…
— Charlie Day
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new…
— Charles de Gaulle
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There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country,…
— Betty Smith
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There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
— Craig Ferguson
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Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a…
— Terry Pratchett
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It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman,…
— Margaret Mitchell
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of…
— Laura Bell Bundy
Who Wrote These Old Country Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Old Country Quotes as follows: