Country Quotes - Page 38

• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Years, Seven Months

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• The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

  Tom Harkin

  Gambling, President, Path

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• Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

  Connie Sellecca

  Children, Order, Games

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• Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Government, Support, Competition

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• We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

  Alistair Darling

  Business, Air, Fresh Air

  "Railways in the fresh air", www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler

  Business, Velvet, Bucks

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.116, Grove Press

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• I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

  Sela Ward

  Memories, Black And White, Thinking

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• We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Brother, Law

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

  George Strait

  Thank You, Careers, Want

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• One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

  Nick Clooney

  Night, Swings, America

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• Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.

  Bob Hope

  Worry, Over You, One Line

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• The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Privilege, University

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Odds, America

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Kings, Inspiration

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• The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Christian, Wall

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, America, People

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Mistake

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, Thinking

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

  Ari Shapiro

  Monday, Heart, Joining In

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• Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Embarrassing

  "Harvey Weinstein Says on CNN 'Obama's Not Embarrassing; the Country Is Embarrassing'". "The Piers Morgan Live Show", www.newsbusters.org. November 19, 2013.

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• Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

  Hun Sen

  Peace, Rights, Independence

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• Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Pie, Bears, Reform

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• Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

  Che Guevara

  Powerful, Peaceful, World

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.326, Ocean Press

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• How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

  Che Guevara

  Sweat, Suffering, Raw Materials

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.341, Ocean Press

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• This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

  Fidel Castro

  Spiritual, Heaven, Dictator

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