Country Quotes

Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country, Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.

~ Kellie Elmore

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

~ Diana Gabaldon

In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

~ Jean Webster

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at dawn. Pub brawls, rackety roadworks, mugged tourists, the badlands on a Saturday night - they all made sense, they were all part of the huge, dirty, torn social fabric. There was a war raging out there in the city and she was part of the fight, but the countryside unsettled her because she didn't know who the enemy was. She had always preferred North and South to Wuthering Heights. All that demented running around the moors, identifying yourself with the scenery, not a good role model for a woman.

~ Kate Atkinson

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.

~ Émile Zola

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

~ William Cowper

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

~ Aristotle

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

~ Alexander Woollcott

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

~ Louis Kronenberger

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

~ Edouard Manet

A great city a great solitude.

~ Old Proverb

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

~ Jane Jacobs

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

What is the city but the people?

~ William Shakespeare

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

~ Albert Camus

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

~ Christopher Morley

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

~ George Herbert

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings easily given to violence that we get along together because we must more than because we want to and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago that reason's realm is small that we never have been and never shall be created equal that if the human being is perfectible he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.

~ Robert Ardrey

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

~ William Hazlitt

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

~ Oscar Wilde

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.

~ E. B. White

Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play escaping the city heat.

~ E. B. White

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

~ Kathleen Norris

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

~ Donald Trump

Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.

~ Roger Stone

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

~ Olusegun Obasanjo

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

~ Ben Carson

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

~ Hugh Jackman

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

~ Amanda Burton

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei