Quotes about country

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic in the country it is a form of entertainment.

My country can never be taken away from me now I'd happily given it away.

Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.

A people without children would face a hopeless future a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Darkness humbles and demolishes the people it destroy any country

A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!

Jesus never wrote a book never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

The destiny of any country is in the hands of the people who know God they are the people who carry Christian ideas

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.