Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. J. Johnson

My interest was in getting Democrats to travel to the country and to learn more about Malaysia.

My legal team have worked entirely hard for me. I thank God I can stay in the country that I love.

Charles Taylor

My leaving office is dependent on two factors: one, my willingness to do so, and secondly, the presence of an international force that will stabilize the situation in the country as I depart,

Kenny Perry

My first thought was I'm glad it wasn't me out there, ... It was intense. They kept making putt on top of putt, and they were clutch. It made me realize how great those guys really are, to realize their whole team and country were riding on their back, and they were able to stand up to it.

Ariel Sharon

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses, ... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

Oscar Wilde

One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Kenzaburo Oe

Of course I would not presume to rank myself with the poetic genius Yeats. I am merely a humble follower living in a country far removed from his.

Jim Calhoun

No one in the country has guard play like Villanova.

Mike Bailey

None of us are classically trained. We're country people who enjoy country music.

Donald Trump

No one has put forward a plan to make this country entirely debt free as we enter the next millenium.

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.

No, of course not, ... and I don't think there is any manager in this country who would not want Michael Owen.

Warren Spector

My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.

My experience is that country gets upset when you take a record to top 40 or AC before you take it to them or if you're working a record simultaneously, ... but we're not. We're working two separate records.

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

Ozzie Guillen

My country, we're not together and we are now and just because the White Sox win. It's a great feeling to be part of that. It's a great feeling to know you do something good for your country - because I know how they feel.

My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.

Gilles Muller

My country is so small, ... that it takes five minutes to get to Germany, five minutes to get to France, and five minutes to get to Belgium. The country is like one big family. It's completely different from New York. I really like this city, but after two or three weeks, I need to get out of here.

Charles Erwin Wilson

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Valerie Jarrett

I am an Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith. I am also an American Citizen and I seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself.

Vandana Shiva

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

Andrew Jackson

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Lloyd Cutler

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Kacey Musgraves

Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

Judy Biggert

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

Joanna Lumley

China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

John Lewis

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Jane Addams

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

Jane Austen

one day in the country is exactly like another.

Jan Brett

When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.