Mother Country Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Mother Country

Mother Country Quotes & Sayings

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Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country? — Ambeth R. Ocampo

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. — Seymour Cassel

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store. — Moon Unit Zappa

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived. — Nayyirah Waheed

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — Mother Teresa

She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland. — Ruta Sepetys

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life. — Bill Bryson

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

What will become of a country...when a mother cannot trust her own children, and they, in turn, cannot trust their own families? — Nina Willner

Mother Maybelle, have mercy, we've just been discovered. — Alecia Whitaker

I saw a mother who lose his country, city, home and children, but she had hijab between corpses. — Ali Rezavand Zayeri

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. — Fred Hampton

More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan. — V.S. Naipaul

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother. — Edward VII

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves. — Mother Teresa

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country. — Thomas Jefferson

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. — George III

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice! — Mother Jones

Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When — Maya Angelou

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country. — Sai Baba

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober' — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. — William Shakespeare

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

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance. — Kirk Douglas

Indeed, mother, you are always our helper."
"For what else are we born? — Alan Paton

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves. — George Mason

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want. — Marina Abramovic

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them. — Mother Teresa

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country. — Chanakya

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. — Thomas Friedman

England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country — Fred Trueman

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. — Quentin Crisp

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth. — Narendra Modi

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers — Mathew Brady

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor — Mother Teresa

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it. — Malala Yousafzai

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan