Top 1200 Best Country Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.

Russia is not a homogenous country; it's a very fragmented country.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.

Segregation is a problem not just in my country but in every country.

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we're reaching for is tolerance.

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

When you're 38 years old and you've already been in three World Cups... one thing I've learned, especially when you play for your country, is, 'I'm there for my country.'

We have a serious problem in this country, and that is securing this country and making sure that the rule of law's upheld. And I applaud Arizona in regards to this.

There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

Our country... invests a tiny fraction of 1 percent in NASA, and this is what's so amazing to me, is with that small investment, we do so much for the country.

I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

I'm having No. 1 hits on the country charts and that's where I always wanted to be. I've had 26 No. 1 country records. That thrills me to no end.

We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

I was listening to country at the time too, mostly because when I was a kid growing up in the country, all my friends would listen to the CMT crap and I really hated it. That would make me really angry. But when I got older I started discovering that there was actually good country music that could sort of take me back to my roots.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Every tournament that I go to, I'll prepare my absolute best to play my best golf. And if my best golf is a Top-10, then so be it.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

Ability-wise, when you see the best of Aaron Ramsey... at his best, is he good enough for Barcelona? Yes he is, at his best.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

We want a country. and we will get it, our country.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.