Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Lowe

I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.

Tyler Farr

I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.

Tyler Farr

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Sara Rue

I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt.

Vesta Williams

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

B. B. King

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

Voltaire

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Kurt Vonnegut

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Jean Schmidt

We have lots of work, ... I come here only with a desire to make our great country greater.

We have lost a noble American who loved and served his country with great honor and distinction,

Gordon Campbell

We have looked at some of the failings of our country and embraced the idea that we can improve,

Abraham Lincoln

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

William Westmoreland

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

Wolfman Jack

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

Wolfman Jack

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

Right now, Liberia is a country on life support,

People were somewhat focused on the trade surplus numbers. Japan is ultimately an exporting country and those exports are getting more expensive.

Police reports from around the country say voting has been peaceful.

Richard Eberhart

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Will Rogers

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space

Only Ellen has the credentials and the experience to lead this country. George needs to go to school. This is no time for learning on the job.

Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned.

New Yorkers remember when we were in trouble ... people from the country and around the world rushed to help, ... We won't forget that; we will do the same thing if we can possibly be helpful down there.

Marshall Brickman

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

One of the sad things in this country is that we don't have enough teachers who teach technique. How do you sing on a day when you don't feel like it?

one of the greatest benefactors that this country has ever known.

one of the most tragic, costly and preventable public health problems facing this country today.

I was governor during 9/11, and maybe Governor Doyle doesn't understand the depth of feeling in this country towards terrorism and what is going on.

Bob Schieffer

Mr. President, ... what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?

John Edward

Mr. Vice President, I don't think the country can take four more years of this type of experience,

John Trudell

My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.