Quotes about country
country wife spy
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. Samuel Johnson
country green-fields walks
Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.
country kings army
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexations, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.
country cones despots
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
country years perception
Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower. Vivek Wadhwa
country memories drinking
I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together. Vivien Leigh
country heart giving
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism. William Howard Taft
country favors helping
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
country character men
The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.
country army faithful
Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
country men political
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
country republican welfare
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
country giving-up thinking
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
country cities alternatives
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing. Will Wynn
country distance winter
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities. Willa Cather
country depressing absence
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
country thinking people
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
country time long
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
country giving earth
There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
country lying winter
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
country land made
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
country stars land
There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
country hymns two
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies. Warren Christopher
country war done
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
country historical important
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
country enormous-quantities society
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century. Warren Buffett
country mean thinking
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
country zero airline-business
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.
country income investing
It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
country party cutting
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.
country should-have fifty
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
country real people
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
country party government
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.