Country Quotes - Page 31

• What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

  Clay Walker

  Believe, Heart, Simple

  Clay Walker (2013). “Jesus Was a Country Boy: Life Lessons on Faith, Fishing, and Forgiveness”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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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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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Heart, Pride, Village Life

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Cities, Voice, Choices

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

  Helen Caldicott

  Cuba, Done, Wonderful

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• Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.

  Ted Rall

  War, Two, People

  "Time to Trade Up" by Ted Rall, rall.com. July 5, 2004.

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

  Randall Robinson

  Thug, People, Democracy

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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 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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• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  Wayne White

  Children, Ideas, Needs

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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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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Children, Hate, People

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  America, Able, Faces

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• Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

  Jo Grimond

  Party, Wings, Long

  Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

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• I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.

  Phil Baroni

  Organization, America, Champion

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• I express my profound thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who gives to you, to me, and to all who sincerely seek, the knowledge that death is not the end, that His Son--even our Savior Jesus Christ--died that we might live. Temples of the Lord dot the lands of many countries. Sacred covenants are made. Celestial glory awaits the obedient. Families can be together forever.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  School, Atheism, Church

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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• I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

  James Laughlin

  Sound, Vacuums, Reader

  "The Way it Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin".

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• Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

  Barbara Sher

  Horizon, Destination

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

  Nelson Mandela

  Effort, Future Business, Business Leadership

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• Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

  George Washington

  Men, Brave, Liberty

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.209

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• Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

  Ronald Reagan

  World, Wells, Free World

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