Country Quotes

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Charmaine J Forde

After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.

~ Eve Ensler

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

~ Viktor Tatarczuk

In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.

~ B.r. Ambedkar

Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

~ Meia Geddes

Export of terror by any country (eventho a low cost operation) always undermines strategic balance.

~ Ramesh Lohia

We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those born of God are called to reform their country, for that reason Christians need to have a victorious mentality

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders.

~ Sunday Adelaja

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

~ Alecia Whitaker

His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.

~ Alecia Whitaker

In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.

~ Alecia Whitaker

South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.

~ Christina Engela

I am not Nigerian because I was born in Nigeria but because Nigeria was born in me.

~ Saminu Kanti

Events went on to show that it is not by chance that a prime minister reaches such lofty heights and that, as the infallible wisdom of nations has demonstrated time and time again, each country gets the government it deserves, although it must be said that while it is true to say that prime ministers, for good or ill, are not all the same, it is no less true to say, are all countries.

~ José Saramago

My country can never be taken away from me now, I'd happily given it away.

~ Kiera Cass

What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.

~ Dan Groat

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...

~ Ruta Sepetys

In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am proud to be Nepali.

~ Nepali

If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It was a country life, a precious existence.

~ Fennel Hudson

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.

~ Timur Vermes

Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different.How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst

~ Philippe Legrain

If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From Progressive insanities of a pioneer

~ Margaret Atwood

This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.

~ Peter Ombedha

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

~ J.l. Carr

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the green and elastic vigor of the young saplings; the noble form of the forest aisles, and the subdued light which penetrates their entangled boughs, combine to add to the impression; and the whole character of the scene is calculated to excite conservative feeling. The man who could remain a radical in a wood country is a disgrace to his species.

~ John Ruskin

If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

~ John Buchan

A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.

~ Cheryl Matthynssens

Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.

~ Paul Russell

Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.

~ Rick Riordan

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

~ Michael Cunningham

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

~ Richard Peck

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

~ Robert Frost

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

~ Michael Thomas Ford

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

~ Nicholas Proffitt

We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana