Quotes about country
country religious suffering
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country. Upton Sinclair
country lying eye
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls. Ursula K. Le Guin
country loneliness law
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.
country women civilization
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
country hate what-is-love
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
country reading important
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
country important institutions
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". U Thant
country men our-world
The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves. Robert James Waller
country song blue
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
country weekend long
[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music. Rodney Crowell
country
The poetry of country music will survive.
country daughter song
Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter Rodney Atkins
country men wife
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble. Rodney Dangerfield
country mean energy
Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy. Rod Blagojevich
country children thinking
On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone. Rocco Buttiglione
country idols
A country without idols is nothing. Roberto Clemente
country men charm
I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers. Roberto Unger
country hate worry
Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about. Robertson Davies
country book doctors
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
country scotch desire
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
country night years
The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.
country insanity dull
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
country thinking names
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it Robert Stone
country men mind
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust. Robert Southey
country men blessing
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane. Robert Payne
country spring real
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce. Robert Peel
country religious real
I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good. Robert Owen
country children party
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour
country heart
There is no country but the heart. Robert Penn Warren
country growing-up blood
For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.
country feelings world
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
country interesting different
One of the interesting things about having an international fanbase is that every single country has a different reaction to you and to the movie. Robert Pattinson
country people balance
If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.