Country Quotes - Page 39

• It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

  Andrew Simms

  Ice Cream, Economic Value, Bankers

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Deterioration, Use, Patterns

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• If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Sri Lanka, Ddt, People

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• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Class, Democracy

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• Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

  B. F. Skinner

  Age, Enjoy, Prepared

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• READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reading, Sphinx, Stories

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Ambition, Mind, Fabric

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Party, People, Causes

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Blessed, Animal, Heritage

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, People, Lovely

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.226, Best Books on

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• I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Opportunity, Honor, Causes

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• You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Real, Tree, Arbor Day

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• We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

  Olaus Murie

  Inspiration, Writing, Expression

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• We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

  Dan Rather

  America, People, World

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• Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Usa, America

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• Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Greatness, Government, Class

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• My country tears of thee.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  America, Tears, Thee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). “A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Mean, Museums

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Attention, Strive, Strife

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• I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ideas, Politics, Millions

  "Clinton vows to check executive power: Would curb use of signing statements" by Marcella Bombardieri, archive.boston.com. October 11, 2007.

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• The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Men, Gambling, Order

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• I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

  Duncan Hines

  Inspirational, Running, Risk

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Memories, Father, Teaching

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• We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Gone, Today, Existence

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