Country Love Quotes - Page 2

• Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Triumphant

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.130

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• The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Country, Men, Greatness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 130), 1895.

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• He made all countries where he came his own.

  John Dryden

  Country, Made

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.30

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• Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

  Walter Scott

  Country, Hands, Land

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

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• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Names, Feet

  Walter Scott (1995). “Rob Roy”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Lovely, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

  Lord Byron

  Good Night, Country, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Sight, Land

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.43

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• What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

  Horace

  Country, Able, Exile

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

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• They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Country, Kings, Kindness

  'Connecticut'

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Yesterday

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

  Fefe Dobson

  Country, Rocks, Honest

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• I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

  Beth Ditto

  Sad Love, Country, Song

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• I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

  Kesha

  Country, One Day, Records

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I learn something new about the country, and I get to see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

  Joe Nichols

  Beautiful, Country, Fall

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• My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think every person in the entire country is nice. Seriously, I haven't seen or heard of a mean person yet. And they love country music.

  Joe Nichols

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

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• I do love country music.

  Kesha

  Country

  "Ke$Ha Says She May Go Country 'One Day'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

  Little Richard

  Country, Plus

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• Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Husband, Betrayal

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• It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

  Joseph Addison

  Sports, Country, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.415

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• I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

  Mick Jagger

  Country, Thinking, Tongue

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

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• Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, People

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  Ville Valo

  Country, Cash

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• Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

  Grantland Rice

  Summer, Running, Country

  Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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