Top country Quotes Collection - Page 2

Discover a curated collection of country quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 2 provides more country quotes.

Image of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Collection: Country
Image of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
This is the first global crisis that doesn't start in poor countries and it was caused by the rich countries. So it's necessary to take advantage of this crisis - the financial system has to be regulated. It's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing, because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage. And I believe that there's no other - more any reason for a G-8 group or any other "G." I believe that we should guarantee that the G-20 should be now an important forum to discuss the major economic issues of the world.
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Collection: Country
Image of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Collection: Country
Image of Ike Skelton
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world
- Ike Skelton
Collection: Country
Image of Philip Schaff
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
- Philip Schaff
Collection: Country
Image of Phyllis Schlafly
My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.
- Phyllis Schlafly
Collection: Country
Image of Tony Bennett
It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.
- Tony Bennett
Collection: Country
Image of Tony Bennett
The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
- Tony Bennett
Collection: Country
Image of Robert Falcon Scott
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
- Robert Falcon Scott
Collection: Country
Image of Scott O'Dell
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.
- Scott O'Dell
Collection: Country
Image of Lyn Nofziger
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.
- Lyn Nofziger
Collection: Country
Image of Suketu Mehta
I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.
- Suketu Mehta
Collection: Country
Image of Suketu Mehta
Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick Bombay. Other Indian cities, such as Delhi and Varanasi, have also been bombed recently, but Bombay's significance as the financial capital of the country means that it's the best target for terrorists who're unhappy with India's progress.
- Suketu Mehta
Collection: Country
Image of Suketu Mehta
Indian Muslims have stayed very far away from Al Qaeda and the like; they have voted with their feet and stayed in the country, rather than going to Pakistan during partition. On the whole, they recognize that life is better for them in India than in Pakistan.
- Suketu Mehta
Collection: Country
Image of Boris Yeltsin
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
- Boris Yeltsin
Collection: Country
Image of M. John Harrison
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.
- M. John Harrison
Collection: Country
Image of M. John Harrison
Everyone loves a mysterious country.
- M. John Harrison
Collection: Country
Image of Pierre Trudeau
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
- Pierre Trudeau
Collection: Country
Image of Pierre Trudeau
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
- Pierre Trudeau
Collection: Country
Image of Chuck Berry
The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
- Chuck Berry
Collection: Country
Image of Anna Deavere Smith
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country. It doesn't matter how educated they are. By living in the world and living their experiences, they bring extraordinary truths. I try to do those truths justice.
- Anna Deavere Smith
Collection: Country
Image of Hanna Rosin
Men are now also in the minority among the entering traditionally male-dominated areas such as law and medicine. Finance and politics are still firmly in male hands, but in many other areas it seems the proportions are shifting in women's favor. Boys are doing worse at school and university. It's only logical that this imbalance, which can be observed in most industrialized countries, will change conditions on the job market.
- Hanna Rosin
Collection: Country
Image of Bill Moyers
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.
- Bill Moyers
Collection: Country
Image of Bill Moyers
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.
- Bill Moyers
Collection: Country
Image of Katherine Anne Porter
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!
- Katherine Anne Porter
Collection: Country
Image of Dennis Miller
Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.
- Dennis Miller
Collection: Country
Image of Liam Neeson
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.
- Liam Neeson
Collection: Country
Image of Liam Neeson
We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.
- Liam Neeson
Collection: Country
Image of Amy Waldman
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
- Amy Waldman
Collection: Country
Image of Amy Waldman
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
- Amy Waldman
Collection: Country
Image of Kwame Nkrumah
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
- Kwame Nkrumah
Collection: Country
Image of Anne M. Mulcahy
Educated and productive young people are needed to help #‎ LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
- Anne M. Mulcahy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
Collection: Country
Image of Martina Navratilova
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
- Martina Navratilova
Collection: Country
Image of Peter L. Berger
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.
- Peter L. Berger
Collection: Country
Image of Doug Stanhope
I wish the 50 states would break up. Lose the centralised government. More choice. How do you want to live, there's 50 different ways! You hate black people? We've a state for that. You wanna have an abortion? Here's a state. I think we should just keep breaking up countries now so they become just individuals.
- Doug Stanhope
Collection: Country
Image of John Betjeman
Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.
- John Betjeman
Collection: Country
Image of John Betjeman
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.
- John Betjeman
Collection: Country
Image of Andy Murray
People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.
- Andy Murray
Collection: Country
Image of Louis Pasteur
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
- Louis Pasteur
Collection: Country
Image of Henry Williamson
When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.
- Henry Williamson
Collection: Country
Image of Zach Wamp
We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.
- Zach Wamp
Collection: Country
Image of John Spratt
Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
- John Spratt
Collection: Country
Image of Matt Taibbi
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.
- Matt Taibbi
Collection: Country