Country Quotes - Page 21

• The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

  R. W. Apple

  Age, Television, Catastrophe

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• I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

  Ratan Tata

  Thinking, India, Upbeat

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• Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

  Horace Greeley

  Growing Up, Men, West

  Horace Greeley (1999). “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

  Horace Greeley

  Growing Up, Men, Dust

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Art, Hate

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• Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

  Confucius

  Father, Son, Different

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

  Douglas Mawson

  Home, Found, Blizzard

  Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.88, Wakefield Press

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• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Self, Expectations, Succeed

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• Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

  Arthur Hailey

  Believe, Moving, Men

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• There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Team, Responsibility, Expecting

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.

  Roger Milla

  Winning, Player, Stronger

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• It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.

  Zachary Macaulay

  Agony, Darkness, Vitality

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• This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

  Robert C. Maynard

  Doors, Giving, Goal

  Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Years, Turkeys, Space

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• The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

  Robert Fortune

  Giving, Tree, Chinese

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Real, School, Cities

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• At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  Girl, War, Nice

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• I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

  George Crumb

  People, Culture, Interest

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• Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

  Helen Caldicott

  Cuba, Done, Wonderful

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• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  Edward Bok

  Growth, Excellence, Elements

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• I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two year military service, I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me. I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

  Gal Gadot

  Strong, Military, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

  Shelley Hennig

  People, Tasks, Clubs

  "When I Was 17: Shelley Hennig". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 19, 2012.

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• We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

  Dave Haywood

  Roots, Foundation

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• The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Thinking, Want, Developing Countries

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• Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

  Deneen Borelli

  Opportunity, Liberty, Doe

  Deneen Borelli (2013). “Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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