David Sedaris Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Travel, Rude

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

• Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

• People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Hate, Moving

• In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

  David Sedaris

  Country, New York, Children

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

• When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do for a living when you meet someone. A lot of the obvious things, the shortcuts we take in America - in America you can talk about money all you want. You can ask how much they make, rent they pay, how much their house costs and how much their car costs, and they'll feel comfortable telling you. But it's scandalous to ask anyone in England or France a question like that.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Obvious Things, America

• It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?

  David Sedaris

  Country, Attention, Kind

• Thank god I'm in England, because if I lived in any other country, it'd probably be the Philippines. Because with Rodrigo Duterte as the leader they couldn't really give me attitude on Donald Trump.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Attitude, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I always say to young people, "Get the hell out of the United States." Especially if you're young, like if you're 21 or something. Let's say you don't speak any Italian. You're 21. Everyone's going to want to sleep with you and be nice to you. And the best way to learn a language is to sleep with someone from that country.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Nice, Sleep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."

  David Sedaris

  Country, Gay, People

  "David Sedaris on 'Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls'". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 21, 2013.

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