Country Quotes - Page 27

• It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

  Randy Cohen

  Citizens, Pay, Share

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• My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a problem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the border, there will be trouble. If we forget about the river, there will be now way out. There is already a sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can never erase.

  Larry Levis

  Eye, Clouds, Sky

  Larry Levis (1998). “The Afterlife: Poems”, Carnegie Mellon

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• I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

  Killer Mike

  Night, People, Feelings

  "Killer Mike addresses Michael Brown shooting on CNN" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.

  Jennifer Chrisler

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• Iran’s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And it’s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.

  Mark Regev

  Israel, Iran, President

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• I live in a developing country.

  Fernando Meirelles

  Developing Countries, Developing

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• No country. is as harsh as the world.

  Fernando Meirelles

  World, Harsh

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• I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.

  Shahar Pe'er

  Israel, Play, Tennis

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• South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

  Honor Blackman

  Beautiful, Canada, Underrated

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• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Cities, America, Towns

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• In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

  Alexandra Robbins

  School, Law, Problem

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• I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Years, People, Billions

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• I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.

  Ahmed Ali

  Beautiful, America, World

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• Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

  Tim Tharp

  Childhood, Fantastic

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.81, Scholastic UK

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• Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

  James Forten

  Dark, People, Slavery

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• This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Thinking, Two

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• Time is running out fast.  I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.

  Willem Buiter

  Running, Thinking, America

  "New Italy PM fails to calm financial markets". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. November 17, 2011.

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• I'm taking (the training) a little more seriously than I normally would to speed up the process. I don't care if people say I was a surprise pick. I feel like it's an honor and the people who made the decision to put me on the team know what they are talking about. To play for your country is something you can hold on to the rest of your life.

  Matt Holliday

  Team, Talking, Play

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• No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.

  Walter Knott

  Religious, Believe, Destiny

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• In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Moving, Next Week

  "Politicians React To The Awful August Jobs Numbers" by Zeke Miller, businessinsider.com. September 2, 2011.

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• You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Guarantees That, Earth, Speech

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• The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Government, Names

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• I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

  Perry Christie

  People, Partnership, Invited

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Men, Broken

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• I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.

  Dalai Lama

  Loyalty, Thinking Of You, Asian

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2011). “How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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