Quotes about country
country food thinking
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. Joseph Lelyveld
country jobs believe
As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country. Katherine Harris
country powerful opportunity
.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. Katherine Boo
country mean advancement
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
country war writing
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything. Katherine Anne Porter
country liars law
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!
country struggle thinking
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?' Kara Walker
country practice ideas
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness. Karen Abbott
country intellectual looks
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Karen Armstrong
country blessing opportunity
America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers. Katharine McPhee
country children silly
I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.
country taken people
childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days. Kate Green
country cutting want
This might be the most country thing I've ever cut! I told Miranda Lambert that she was gonna want to cut it and after she agreed to duet with me, I said maybe you should listen to me and Blake Shelton more often! Justin Moore
country two iraq
You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet. Josh Mandel
country stronger way
The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.
country government ohio
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.
country needs firsts
While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.
country betrayal men
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad
country citizens care
5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
country earth pakistan
Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth. Joseph Cirincione
country thinking government
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." Joseph Gordon-Levitt
country freedom government
Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre
country new-york car
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York. Kate Smith
country kids cooking
When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook. Kate Moss
country want down-and
I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
country past thinking
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music. Kary Mullis
country london crime
The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country. Leona Lewis
country thinking self
[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated. Leonard Cohen
country anvils facts
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. Leland Stanford
country reason-why should
There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.
country giving return
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
country way wealth
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
country responsibility important
it's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it's a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way. Lawrence Summers