Country Quotes - Page 34

• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Men, Broken

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• It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.

  Paul Dirac

  Doe, Different, Culture

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Spring, Party, Night

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• The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Real, Ignorance

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• The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
  movement, a person that does not value its youth and
  children does not deserve its future.

  Oliver Tambo

  Children, Doe, Movement

  Speech by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon Baleka Mbete, at the Funeral Services of the Late Hon Timothy Khoza, in Mpumalanga, www.parliament.gov.za. August 12, 2017.

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• Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Greatest Treasure, Grace

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 2015.

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Teenager, College

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Pia Zadora

  Movie, Successful, People

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• Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Born, Convinced

  "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Book by Jacob M. Appel, 2012.

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Beach, Real

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

  Doug Wead

  Choices, Want, Ruins

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• It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

  Kenny Loggins

  Guitar, Style, Language

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• It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

  Charley Pride

  Fans, World, Reasonable

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

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• Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kings, Love You, Kids

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• Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, People, Operations

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Jo Bonner

  Ocean, Two, People

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• I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

  Roma Downey

  Smile, Thinking, Vietnam

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• The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

  Lori Lansens

  Cities, People, Shining

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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• While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

  Carol Bellamy

  Technology, World, Developing Countries

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• Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.

  Charley Reese

  Integrity, Men, Intelligent

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• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

  Robert Bolt

  Sake, Chaos, Duty

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Distance, Men, Space

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• It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

  Tommy Douglas

  Greatness, World, Canada

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• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

  Noah Webster

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11

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