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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
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
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
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
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 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,
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— 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
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
— D.H. Lawrence
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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
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
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
With no notice to the American people ... this country entered the war ... Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
— Garet Garrett
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
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
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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
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
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
