Quotes about country
country stars larger-than-life
In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life. Paul Newman
country small-changes iowa
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover. Paul Engle
country past hands
I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!
country latin struggle
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors. Paul Farmer
country children block
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.
country should-have done
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
country taken victory
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
country rich-countries giving
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
country views ideas
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
country peaceful knows
You know, the country is basically peaceful. Paul Bremer
country scene
We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.
country police duty
There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
country party tea
[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country. Paul Begala
country crazy choices
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.
country empathy groups
Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger. Paul Bloom
country america years
I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years. Masaharu Morimoto
country mountain most-romantic
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. Mary Wortley Montagu
country writing fire
[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.
country fashion land
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. Mary Hunter Austin
country data numbers
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact. Martha Gellhorn
country home fighting
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
country kindness promise
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
country teacher fear
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
country america printed-word
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. Marshall McLuhan
country identity world
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
country anarchy produce
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
country organization village
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
country storm speech
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun. Mark Helprin
country writing america
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. Mark Haddon
country wrestling somewhere-else
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
country animal people
The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area. Marion Nestle
country government office
Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].
country thinking sick
Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.