Top 1200 Old Country Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. I would cover a lot of Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, that kind of stuff, and it just feels very authentic to me. It's always been there through the years. Even when I was in my band, I still listened to country.

In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.

In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals which have made this country great. We must reaffirm the basic human values that have guided our forefathers. A revival of old-fashioned patriotism and a grateful acknowledgment of what our country has done for us would be good for all our souls.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

That's how I started out singing, was that real old-timey country.

I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars."

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

In country, you can grow old with your fans. You can still do shows when you're 70.

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.