Country Quote by Tahir Shah

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

— Anthony Quayle

I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way…

— Mido Hamada

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its…

— Agnes de Mille

W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say…

— Ian Mortimer

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

— Donovan Bailey

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

— Asne Seierstad

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat…

— Leslie Charteris

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

— Che Guevara

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

— Henry Rollins

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

— Chuka Umunna

You have to see other cultures to understand the world.

— Chris Harris