Quotes about country
country delighted east invitation leading middle nations russia united
We are delighted with the invitation to Moscow, and we see Russia as a leading country in the United Nations and the Middle East settlement process.
country fair folks oppose puts support wine
We know that a lot of folks will support this and a lot of them will oppose it. It's fair to say that this really puts Oregon's wine country at a crossroads. Michael Robinson
country sounds tag
We know it kind of sounds like a country band, but we wanted to be nondescript with the name. We wanted something that didn't tag us to any genre.
country discussion guess
We'll have a big discussion about it. And my guess is there will be other discussions around the country after you write your story.
country inside last obstruct october outside towards
Those inside and outside the country who want to obstruct us as we go towards October 3 are making their last efforts, Abdullah Gul
country friends-or-friendship hear league national step
You have so many friends around the league but when you step on the ice, it's forgotten. We're all going to try and win. When you hear your national anthem, you know you're with your country now.
country evil parent
Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do! Richard Bach
country giving tree
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. Robert Fortune
country business ocean
We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone. Robert Frost
country jobs thinking
Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it. Robert Fulghum
country america russia
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
country art nice
Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
country money gains
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....
country littles grammar
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
country cutting blow
Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake. Robert Bolt
country sake chaos
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
country law justice
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law. Robert Bork
country money gold
There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers. Robert Benchley
country masculine-and-feminine born
I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital. Rita Levi-Montalcini
country writing thinking
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. Rita Dove
country thinking years
I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again. Rita Rudner
country art sorry
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering. Rita Mae Brown
country community drug
Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States. Rick Larsen
country rocks listening
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. Rick Moranis
country giving-up thinking
When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up. Rick Mercer
country stupid moving
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid. Rick Moody
country children love-you
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them. Richard V. Allen
country energy natural
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. Richard Eberhart
country long world
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
country texas gold
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either. Richard Engel
country running kids
To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country . . . if we don't, someone else will run our country. Richard Dreyfuss
country land cities
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him. Thucydides
country successful men
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.