Quotes
Quotes about Country
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
I'm summoned by the fields and hills, The shady maples in the garden, The bank of the deserted burn, The liberties the country offers. Give me your hand. I will return At the beginning of October: We'll drink together once again, And o'er our cups of friendly candor Discuss a dozen gentlemen-- We'll talk of fools and wicked gentry, And those with flunkey's souls from birth, And sometimes of the Tsar of Heaven, And sometimes of the one on earth.
Dreams are strange. A man can wake sweating in terror. What is that dark country of the mind through which we wander in sleep?
...America was a new country and it seemed queer that they'd got all these slums there already in that short space of time
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.
The soldier puts cunt before country
One revolution's enough for any country
What this country needs is more leaders who know what this country
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a Zealous one asking what you can do for your country.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do on chewing gum.
The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
