Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

Charles Dickens

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Chris Christie

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

Chris Alexander

We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.

David Duke

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

Beatrix Potter

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Chester Himes

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

We're going to operate simultaneously throughout the entire eastern and southern part of the country so we get inside the decision cycle; so we hit them before they can hit innocent men, women and children,

Aya Cash

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Bob Hawke

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

Betty Ford

My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.

We're really going to count on her to step up.

Our sales organization frankly speaks of effectively having lost October and November in those parts of the country in total.

Our country was knocked back on its heels that day, but quickly found its footing again.

Cindy Sheehan

Our country does not really know what war is about.

Rick Perlstein

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

Natalie Maines

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

Dick Cheney

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

Banksy

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Luke Bryan

I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

P. J. O'Rourke

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

Bob Ainsworth

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Heber J. Grant

What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.

We are a country of the last minute.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

Michael Eisner

The reaction to (the film) has been extraordinary (in previews), ... Don't count on Lion King but we think it will be a successful movie. I am very encouraged.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

David Cunliffe

We have the highest diaspora per capita of any developed country except for Ireland. We want to get back the quarter that weren't sure.

Abigail Adams

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Adam Smith

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

Adam Michnik

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.