Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flo Rida

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

Fatos Nano

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

Faye Wattleton

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

Gram Parsons

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

Thomas Menino

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

We left insane three counties ago. This is goofball territory.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

We're trying to keep our county from being overwhelmed by growth.

We're trying to help other states offer some form of tax relief because of the very problem we see in Nevada we're seeing around the country - rapidly escalated values and people being taxed out of their homes.

Alan Shearer

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

Alan Ball

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

Blake Shelton

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

Blake Shelton

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

Blake Shelton

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

Blake Shelton

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

Blake Shelton

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.

Blake Shelton

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

Blake Shelton

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

Blake Shelton

I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.

Blake Shelton

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

Benedict Wong

Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

The really positive thing is we are really giving the Whatcom County schools a good match, making it close. In the past it hasn't been that close. That's the measure of how your program is doing.

There are a lot of reasons this is a higher risk/reward country (to invest in).

Kofi Annan

There are now 11 women heads of state or government, in countries on every continent. And three countries -- Chile, Spain and Sweden -- now have gender parity in government.

Daniel Morgan

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Francis Scott Key

He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.