Quotes about country
country stories
Country music has the great stories. Etta James
country listening want
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
country rocks culture
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
country art voice
Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction. Eudora Welty
country west legacy
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy. Esa-Pekka Salonen
country children church
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children. Erwin McManus
country luxury democracy
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. Ernest Mandel
country humorous past
The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns. Erma Bombeck
country travel fall
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
country disease dollars
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea. Florynce Kennedy
country home america
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. Florence King
country art flower
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
country home government
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.
country fighting italian
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.
country moderation difficult
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. Flann O'Brien
country father past
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller. Flannery O'Connor
country rocks honest
I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest! Fefe Dobson
country facts polls
In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. Feisal Abdul Rauf
country countries-of-the-world tradition
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
country father working-very-hard
There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
country reality artist
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist. Federico Fellini
country blood fire
... the gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.... Federico Garcia Lorca
country world spain
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
country avid trying
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. Fay Godwin
country thinking rights
I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate. Fatou Bensouda
country stupid class
If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now. Fatos Nano
country block progress
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
country government giving
Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine. Farooq Abdullah
country canada hell
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks. Farley Mowat
country two desire
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling. Fanny Kemble
country time way
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value. Fanny Burney
country party technology
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land. Fareed Zakaria
country two political
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.