Quotes about country
country priorities security
The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority. J. D. Hayworth
country labor-day news
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
country jobs talking
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt. J. C. Watts
country community world
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country. Isabel Allende
country powerful giving
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
country home tree
far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
country children giving
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
country roots people
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
country nice people
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences. Irving Kristol
country hosts maximum olympics provide stage wide
By and large, I think you're going to see any country that hosts Olympics -- it's a wide international stage -- to go to those lengths to provide maximum security, Tom Ridge
country united
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. Christiane Amanpour
country cross definitely meet previous record runner runners school seconds track
He's (Van Veen) always been a better track runner than a cross country runner. Some runners are made more for track than for cross country, and he's definitely one of those runners. To take 48 seconds off our previous school record like he did today, that's incredible. Especially considering that he did it at a meet like this.
country drove gave town wife
He told me he was getting married, ... So I said, 'I want to come.' So he gave me an invitation. So my wife and I drove up there and, let me tell you what, it's all country there. That whole town shuts down at 8 o'clock. Pat Williams
country entrance hath
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. Francis Bacon
country major media people
He's a major media figure, he's someone people know all over the country. Fred Barnes
country years government
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. Franklin Pierce
country children father
I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.
country winter hands
We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. Franz Beckenbauer
country circles forever
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever. Franklin P. Adams
country cost cigar
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
country heart fate
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!
country men hands
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt. Frantz Fanon
country class-system violence
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.
country party government
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. Franz Grillparzer
country uprising resistance
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
country wall chinese
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
country austria wealth
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.
country intelligent thinking
In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
country iran politics
Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal. Frank Zappa
country real drinking
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
country past needs
Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need. Jeanette Winterson
country cutting oil
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil. Jim Costa
country military views
In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.