Add Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath

— Martin Sheen

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

— Therese of Lisieux

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to…

— Cornel West

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than…

— Fran Lebowitz

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

— Jürgen Moltmann

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of…

— Abraham Lincoln

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

— Asne Seierstad

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally…

— Robert MacNeil

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

— M. John Harrison