Top 1200 Mother Country Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

Let me do what I do best. And that's to run and represent my country and make my country proud.

I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.

[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492.... Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio," from the Italian in dio, meaning "in God."

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

India is a beautiful country. Any attempt to divide people cannot be good for this country.

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

After globalisation, one country can't destabilise another country, as the international community will not forget it.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.

1983 - Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black guy in the band and consequently, usually the only black guy in many of the places where we played.

Anywhere I go - if it's in the country, out of the country - someone is going to know you.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

People in my country love me. I represent my country very well.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.

Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.

In my time, Mother's Day wasn't celebrated the way it is now. In fact, there used to be no Mother's Day for a long time.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.

I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

One country and one country alone, China, aspires to be the world's superpower and has the resources to do it.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.