Country Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

  Patrick Mouratoglou

  Leaving, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

  Loretta Lynn

  Art, People, Fans

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• My country is taking over in tennis

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Tennis

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• It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were people, in this Congress, in the British Parliament saying, 'Don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear'.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, People, Worry

  "Matthews: GOP Worried About Obama Standing Over Them 'Like God'". www.newsbusters.org. February 25, 2010.

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• There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

  Roy Barnes

  Stronger, Earth, Tradition

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• Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

  Pierre Loti

  Home, Sight, Long

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• And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Character, Giving, Belief

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

  Ben Okri

  Character, Ghetto, Appetite For Life

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• Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

  Charles Churchill

  Rays, Genius, Spread

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Reflection, Two, Patriotism

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit".

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• A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Patriotism, Agents

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.423

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• In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

  Melina Mercouri

  Hypocrite, Names, World

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Opportunity, People, Lectures

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• Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

  S. J. Perelman

  Widows And Orphans, Entrepreneur, Gone

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• The merchant has no country .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Southern, Merchants

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• I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, World, Importance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.166, Advaita Ashrama

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• Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Movement, Language

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

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• All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a central bank in every country in the world, which they have now done, thanks to corrupt politicians who have been bought and paid for. This is all you need to know about the history of the world.

  Mary Elizabeth Croft

  War, Done, World

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• Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Broken Heart, Patches, Sovereignty

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13

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• I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

  Hans Bethe

  Creating, Mass Destruction, Nuclear Disarmament

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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• Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.

  Hans Bethe

  Nuclear Disarmament, Skills, Eras

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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