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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. — Abel Ferrara

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. — Lawrence Welk

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. — Hayden Christensen

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. — Lance Armstrong

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa. — Kari Martindale

All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country. — Jack Kerouac

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor. — Jimmy Carter

The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country - from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie. — Upton Sinclair

This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. — George Carlin

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music. — Loretta Lynn

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. — Iman

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. — John Lothrop Motley

He said, McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I never felt the GDR was my home country. — Angela Merkel

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. — Donald Trump

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country. — Tim Roth

In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so. — Rabih Alameddine

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. — James Earl Jones

Radicalism was like a cancer, metastasizing around the globe until every country was infected by it. — Kaylea Cross

I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen. — Stella Adler

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton. — Joe Scarborough

Thanksgiving day was a holiday when everybody in the country was expected to express gratitude to the creator of the universe mainly for food. — Kurt Vonnegut

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. — Ernest Hemingway,

He was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave. — Wes Moore

country highway. He sensed that he was — Michael Palmer

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country. — Charles Durning

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. — Woody Allen

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country. — Uta Hagen

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic. — D.H. Lawrence

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing. — Kirk Douglas

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor. — Dustin Lynch

In California gold was what God was in the rest of the country: everything, everywhere. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad. — Kimi Cunningham Grant

I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda. — Roustam Tariko

France ... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq? — Bill Maher

America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process. — Norman Spinrad

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country. — Samuel Johnson

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. — John F. Kennedy

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

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. — Glenn Beck

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems. — Amanda Lindhout

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in. — Tim Tharp

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country. — Taki Theodoracopulos

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. — Stephen Gardiner

When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape. — Kate Atkinson

To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze. — J.M. Barrie

With no notice to the American people ... this country entered the war ... Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett

Maybe what God had done was give her a great gift. She'd come to this country helpless and friendless. She'd been given both friends and a family — Siri Mitchell

Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. — Oscar Wilde

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office. — Jeff Sessions

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country. — Casey Kasem

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in. — Asne Seierstad

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife. — Daniel Inouye

I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here. — Tom Douglas

David Cameron was wrong on this [Brexit]. He didn't get the mood of his country right. He was very surprised to see what happened. — Donald Trump

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. — Randy Bachman

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. — Erin Pizzey

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese. — Ryu Murakami

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries. — Edward Hirsch

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music. — Charley Pride

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was. — Emma Donoghue

Lou's was like a tour through Crucifix World with a spontaneous stop in Jesus Country. — Dakota Cassidy

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country. — Walter Cronkite

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp. — Ray Stannard Baker

But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few. — Jonathan Maberry

It was a country life, a precious existence. — Fennel Hudson

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too. — Susannah York

The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head. — Daniel Wallace

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble. — Rodney Dangerfield

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness. — Steve Martin

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. — Grover Norquist

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

Every year of my life, my dad has sent me a Valentine's Day gift. Whether I was in the same house or across the country, he always sent something. — Sevyn Streeter

It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country — Will Schwalbe

Last year we drove across the country ... We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip ... I don't remember what it was ... — Steven Wright

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th. — Louis Freeh

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed. — Yoko Ono

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. — Harold Pinter

Yes. I was such a bumpkin then ... I was as naive a country mushroom as you could meet. — Anna Campbell

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country. — Robin Hobb

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it's just a shithole. — Tracy Letts

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country. — Dougray Scott

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture. — Leonid Brezhnev

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?' — Cody Simpson

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. — Mike Newell

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself. — David Halberstam

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. — Timothy Noah

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. — Silvio Berlusconi

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin. — Ming-Na Wen

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. — Tahir Shah

The boy was strong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. — Paulo Coelho

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open. — Ahmed Ben Bella

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country. — Bashar Al-Assad

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves. — Chris Van Allsburg

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it. — Newt Gingrich

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart. — Karen Marie Moning