Country Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Home Home country Odd
It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When things are in the hands of the state they are in a hell of a state! — Leon Louw Copy Share Image
We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think. — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
My state was blue through and through. The reason why my state went red is because my state is a hard labor state, and… — Richard Ojeda Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image