My Country Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about My Country

My Country Quotes & Sayings

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This country needs more readers and less talkers. At least that's my opinion. — Dennis Sharpe

I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land. — R.L. Bartram

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. — Bill Keller

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot. — Salma Hayek

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. — Novak Djokovic

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea ... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. — Shane Smith

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

If you're callin' about my heart, it's still yours. — Blake Shelton

My God! My God! What will the country say? — Abraham Lincoln

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill. — Tom Felton

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. — Tony Perez

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. — Khalil Gibran

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

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love — Garth Brooks

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform. — Blake Shelton

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. — Carl Schurz

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country. — Francois Fenelon

I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country. — Kristen Britain

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world. — Seneca The Younger

Come a little closer, love the way you look tonight
My eyes are the only thing I don't wanna take off of you — Blake Shelton

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. — Winfield Scott Hancock

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for. — Fawzia Koofi

I would die for my country. But I'd rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march! — Brian McClellan

The long historian of my country's woes. — Homer

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco ... I think my country helped me. — J.K. Rowling

God-dang-it, country music is my heart. — Blake Shelton

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country. — Zebulon Pike

In my country, when we think about the future, we shake. — Victor Robert Lee

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances. — Mickey Gilley

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. — Adolf Hitler

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. — Bob Dylan

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. — Emir Kusturica

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. — Elizabeth I

My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. — Leos Carax

I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget. — Kathryn Stockett

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. — Bernard Malamud

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke. — Kurt Vonnegut

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda. — Charles Kennedy

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Let my country die for me. — James Joyce

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. — Keith Urban

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. — George Papandreou

After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country. — Kevin McCarthy

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country. — Marc Benioff

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. — William Lloyd Garrison

I've never turned my back on country music. — Reba McEntire

New Zealand is my favorite country to visit. — Tom Curren

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

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in. — Benjamin Franklin

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. — Pete Coors

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music. — Blake Shelton

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

My heart is filled with love for this country. — Barack Obama

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 no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. — Mr. Lee

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. — Freida Pinto

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to. — Hannah Simone

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. — Thomas Jefferson

Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing. — Jane McGonigal

Europe is my continent, not my country — John Redwood

I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country! — Chris Chelios

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest. — Haile Gebrselassie

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command. — John Buford

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country. — Zachary Taylor

Flag-wavers often say, "If you don't like my country, then leave." But there is nowhere to go. There is no escape. — Jack Donovan

I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens! — Ibrahim Ibrahim

It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home. — A.A. Gill

My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base. — Adam Savage

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite. — Blake Shelton

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that. — Hee-seop Choi

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries. — Scott Steiner

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country. — Hasan M. Elahi

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for. — John Wayne

I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college. — Steve Stivers

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl. — Vesta Williams

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back. — Ted Cruz

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. — John Quincy Adams

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future. — Antonis Samaras

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. — Lindsey Haun

How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd think I was having a hallucination." Though — Philip Roth

It is my job to make runs for the country and win. That is the job I have to do. — Sachin Tendulkar

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson

Single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others. — Hamzatribah

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. — Stonewall Jackson

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. — John Burnside

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country. — IO Tillett Wright

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country. — George Weah

I'm a man. A speak-my-mind, fight-for-what-I-believe, bleed-for-my-country, red-meat-eating man. I don't bow down to anyone. — Kendall Ryan

I've served my country. — Prince Harry

My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served. — Anita Diamant

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron