Country Quotes - Page 14

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Eye, Blue, Grass

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• All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

  Harvey Milk

  Jobs, Reading, Gay

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• Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.

  John Willis Ellis

  War, Two, Office

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• Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Feelings, Mind

  Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2953, Madison & Adams

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• Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Virginia, Liberty

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• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Men

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• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Generations, Restoration

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.432, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• ... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Availability, People

  "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.

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• Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

  Bram Stoker

  Dog, Taken, Animal

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Vampire Novels”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Beautiful, Nature, Animal

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Squares, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1081, Library of America

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• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Animal, Turkeys

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• But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

  Juice Newton

  Adults, Attention, Radio

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• In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Book, Facts

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Book, Return

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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• Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

  Nia Vardalos

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Suffering, Tragedy, President

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• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Giving, Thankfulness

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• The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Law

  Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

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• The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Past, Garden

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.93, Counterpoint Press

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• In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Blessed, Tree, Woods

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• The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

  W. H. Auden

  Tree, Soul, Culture

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Destiny, America

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• I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

  William McKinley

  Money, Inspiration, Mean

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Garden, Cities, House

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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