Top 1200 Country Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.

I love this country. And when you are given an opportunity to help your country, in what is one of the most volatile times we've seen in a long time, there's no way I'm not going to step up to do everything I can and make us strong.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.

Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

For women's football in this country, it's important we do play in the best stadiums, and for me, Wembley is the best in this country.

I am not a country girl at all. I tried the whole country dream and it didn't work for me. I need the madness and pandemonium of a city around me.

They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another - usually country spilling over into the old adult-contemporary charts.

A country without borders is not a country.

I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.

I'm a fan of all genres of music. I have a few country songs I like. I'm not gonna say I'm a huge country fan, but, you know, I listen around.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.

I tell foreign companies that come here... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country has the potential to do so much business in the surrounding countries.'

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

I feel very strongly about my country and stronger still about people who abuse my country.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

I believe in this country. I love this country.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.

It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

There are some people bent on blowing up the situation in the country. I call them the fifth column. They are not an opposition. They want to stage a rebellion in the country. Their dream is to topple the government and overthrow the president.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

America's disabled veterans answered our country's call, and when their time in uniform is done, our country must stand with them.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn't want you here.

The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.