"Happy the country that lives on nothing but……" — Bono
"Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth."
—
Bono
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
144 Quotes by Bono
Bono has 144 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.…
-
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe…
-
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
-
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
-
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
-
The less you know, the more you believe.
-
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
-
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
-
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
-
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
-
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our…
See all 144 quotes by Bono »
More Country Quotes
This quote is filed under Country Quotes,
one of 12,241 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
-
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
-
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
-
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
-
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
-
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
-
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
-
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
-
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
See all 12,241 Country Quotes »