Country Quotes
- Page 96But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.
Louis Tomlinson
People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.
Steve Largent
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
Gloria Estefan
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
James Monroe
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Albert Bushnell Hart
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Omar Bongo
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Nelson Rockefeller
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos
And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
Harry Pollitt
The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
Brandi Chastain
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
Iris Chang
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
John Shimkus
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
Lakhdar Brahimi