Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Udall

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

Roger Waters

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Rush Limbaugh

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Mark McKinnon

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

Mario Andretti

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

George Jones

I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

George Miller

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?

Geoffrey Fisher

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Geoffrey Fisher

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Sarah McLachlan

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

Sandra Cisneros

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Wael Ghonim

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Wyndham Lewis

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Walter Salles

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

Virat Kohli

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Avicii

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

Alexis Arguello

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

Beth Broderick

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Toby Stephens

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

Ted Sarandos

In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

Tim Rice

I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail.

Alexander Skarsgard

To turn off your phone when you go to your country house or you're on vacation for a few days is important. I turn off my phone and just check it once a day. I turn it on and, if it's an important message, I'll call back. Otherwise, it can wait.

Alexander Pushkin

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

We'd like to think we have a rule of law and not a rule of special interests in this country.

We were all so scared and counting hours for daylight to come on Monday.

We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,

We were a little county when I first took over and now we are a big player in California,

E. O. Wilson

We depend on (Wilson) a lot. If we keep her in the ballgame, she's a big key for us. If someone makes a mistake, they're counting on her to get the rebound or the block.