Country Quotes - Page 15

• He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

  Patrick Mouratoglou

  Leaving, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

  Loretta Lynn

  Art, People, Fans

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Art, Moving, Divorce

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• My country is taking over in tennis

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Tennis

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• It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were people, in this Congress, in the British Parliament saying, 'Don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear'.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, People, Worry

  "Matthews: GOP Worried About Obama Standing Over Them 'Like God'". www.newsbusters.org. February 25, 2010.

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• In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Holocaust, Humanity, World

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• The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Valuable, Recalls

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• Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Learning, Character, Science

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.11

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• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Richard Shelby

  Believe, Order, Community

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• There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

  Roy Barnes

  Stronger, Earth, Tradition

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• Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

  Pierre Loti

  Home, Sight, Long

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• You know, the country is basically peaceful.

  Paul Bremer

  Love, Peace, Knows

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• And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Character, Giving, Belief

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

  Ben Okri

  Character, Ghetto, Appetite For Life

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• To lie about a far country is easy

  Guy de Maupassant

  Lying, Easy

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• Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

  Charles Churchill

  Rays, Genius, Spread

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Reflection, Two, Patriotism

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit".

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• A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Patriotism, Agents

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.423

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• My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotism, Firsts, Affection

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.244, Algora Publishing

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• Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

  Niall Ferguson

  Israel, Numbers, Mind Blowing

  Niall Ferguson (2011). “Civilization: The West and the Rest”, p.101, Penguin

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• In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

  Melina Mercouri

  Hypocrite, Names, World

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Opportunity, People, Lectures

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• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Honesty, Intellectual, Quality

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

  S. J. Perelman

  Widows And Orphans, Entrepreneur, Gone

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