Country Quotes - page 4

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. (Alexei Navalny)
All of life is a foreign country. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A wise traveler never despises his own country. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. View quote
Gore Vidal
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. View quote
O. Henry
At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain. View quote
Diego Maradona
Great artists have no country. View quote
Alfred de Musset
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. (Ambrose Bierce)
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. View quote
Sam Houston
Nothing ages a woman like living in the country. View quote
Colette
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. View quote
Willa Cather
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. View quote
Willa Cather
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. (Ernest Hemingway)
England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. View quote
Margaret Drabble
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. View quote
James Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. View quote
James Baldwin
America... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. View quote
Thomas Wolfe