Quotes about count
country dad car
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too. Chip Esten
country song heart
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
country writing community
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? Chinua Achebe
country president
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
country differences trouble
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
country military people
I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.
country ethnicity people
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
country nationality
I have no nationality, no country. China Machado
country band lawyer
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. Chief Joseph
country home men
I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
country giving-up war
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
country men land
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
country heart men
When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
country winter men
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
country lawyer chiefs
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
country men thinking
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
country native-american men
The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.
country men white-man
The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
country brother war
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.
country men land
The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.
country scene changed
Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business. Chet Atkins
country song drinking
There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.
country song fall
The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
country marine islands
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue. Chester W. Nimitz
country son sacrifice
It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son. Chiang Kai-shek
country doe imperialism
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
country ancient china
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
country important stronger
My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger. Chester Nez
country absurdity-of-life racism
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism. Chester Himes
country laughter book
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: soap, in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country. Chester A. Arthur
country islands demand
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
country president pumpkin
Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.
country race agreement
Despite whatever agreement there may be between some of us, let us never forget that we are all working whole-heartedly and humbly for the same goal-a country of peace, abundance and prosperity-for all of our people of all races, of all groups-whoever they may be, wherever they may live. Chester Bowles