Quotes about country
country fighting defense
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country. Homer
country eye men
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
country serve
If I couldn't have got in one place I would have went another way -- there was no way I wasn't going to serve my country -- there was just no way.
country crucial face military question sanctions support whether
If he doesn't do it, then his country will face sanctions and become very vulnerable. If he does do it, then he will immediately get international support. The crucial question is whether he has the support of the military chiefs.
country team
If his team is not on board, how is the country going to be on board?
country jobs children
We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home. Gloria Steinem
country media people
We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."
country thinking iceland
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
country childhood different
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
country men bombs
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
country power men
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
country children emotional
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
country children gun
The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.
country violence needs
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.
country home equality
In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.
country years gathering
During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
country heart men
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. Giorgos Seferis
country needs welfare
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. Giorgio Napolitano
country football player
We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.
country hard-work blessing
The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents. Geraldine Ferraro
country men white-man
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.
country moving office
Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!
country effort political
Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible. Harry Reid
country two-nations effort
The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth. Harry S Truman
country views iran
You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.
country men liberty
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
country voice government
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
country art society
It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist. H. L. Mencken
country writing choices
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
country brother kings
Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude. Jerry Bridges
country character dark
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Hunter S. Thompson
country frankly lost november october parts sales speaks
Our sales organization frankly speaks of effectively having lost October and November in those parts of the country in total.
country footing found heels knocked quickly
Our country was knocked back on its heels that day, but quickly found its footing again.