- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country Quotes
What people owe their country, and each other.
This page collects quotes that use "country" to talk about civic principle — due process, fair trials, and the presumption of innocence as part of the American legal tradition. For quotes about rural life and land instead of nationhood, see Countryside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem in this country is people gravitate toward one genre, and that's what they embrace. I don't understand that. If you hit me with Bell Biv Devoe meets country, well, I like the sound of that concept.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall of Fame is still there. And the roots of country music are still there. It's where the authenticity and the empowering force lies.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020