Country Love Quotes

• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

  Lord Byron

  Country, Sight, Land

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Mean, Citizenship

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.35, Sasquatch Books

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• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Heart, Tears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The poetical works of H.W. Longfellow”, p.59

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• My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

  Robert Burns

  Country, Sweet, Son

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.63

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Life, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Eye, Sight

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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

  Walter Scott

  Patriotic, Men, Land

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Country, Home, Men

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880). “Short Studies of American Authors”

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• Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

  Alexander Pope

  Country, Poor, Dare

  Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.330

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

  Martina McBride

  Country, Careers, Able

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• And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

  John Dryden

  Country, Dark, Land

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.181, Pearson Education

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• O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
  For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

  Robert Burns

  Prayer, Scotland, Heaven

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.123

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• So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Mountain, Loud

  Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “The Traveller”, p.7

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• Our country is wherever we are well off.
  [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Patriotism, Wells

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• I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. You never see yourself as others do but I've always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.

  George Jones

  Country, Heart, People

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• I love Country Music but what happened to it?

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Happened

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• Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Love Is, Emotional

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Country, Night, Men

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.428, GENERAL PRESS

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• I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Country, Ideas, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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