Country Quotes

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

I'm a real big country boy.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.