Quotes about country
country sri-lanka way
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. Nicholas D. Kristof
country talking years
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.
country sri-lanka ddt
If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.
country doctors guy
The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In for example Birmingham, England where a lot of these guys came from, where one of these plots was hatched, it's up to 30% of the population. Maybe that's the problem? Neil Cavuto
country destiny views
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny. Neil Armstrong
country heart independence
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. Nathanael Greene
country soldier invasion
We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
country son rights
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.
country thinking years
We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again. Nathan Wolfe
country demand peculiar
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. Nathan Hale
country regret giving
I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.
country gun middle-of-nowhere
I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere. Naomi Judd
country couple ignorance
maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away. Naomi Shihab Nye
country revolution communist
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. Nadia Comaneci
country thinking citizens
I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there. Nadine Gordimer
country rats winner
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
country integrity believe
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity. Naguib Mahfouz
country time-passing problem
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
country korea nuclear
The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. Mitchell Reiss
country fashion president
So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
country gasoline-prices class
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Mitt Romney
country ideas care
I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.
country envy leader
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
country military army
We respect and honor very deeply those people who decide to serve their country in the military. But we certainly don't denigrate people who choose a different course, particularly when we have an all-volunteer army.
country moon night
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
country home return
Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country.
country believe america
I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.
country thinking dangerous-world
I think the great majority of Republicans, mainstream Republicans from across the country, don't want to see Donald Trump as president of the United States either. They're concerned they'd see a recession and I think they are also concerned we'd see a more dangerous world.
country believe abortion
I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.
country military want
If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.
country children destiny
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
country america people
Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
country class decision
Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .