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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad. — George McGovern

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

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to. — Manny Pacquiao

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays. — Joseph Bologna

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country? — Kapil Dev

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country. — Charlie Munger

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. — Winston S. Churchill

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world. — Buzz Aldrin

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. — Nicolas Cage

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. — Nadine Labaki

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own. — Joss Stone

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country. — Hosni Mubarak

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country. — Ferdinand Foch

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch. — Dizzy Gillespie

According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What — Gloria Steinem

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. — Luke Bryan

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about. — Lenny Abrahamson

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes. — Asne Seierstad

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country. — Shashi Tharoor

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts. — Carice Van Houten

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

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life. — Agnetha Faltskog

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films. — Matthew Goode

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country. — Dilip Kumar

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do. — Stedman Graham

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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 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

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

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

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

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec. — Gilles Duceppe

Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live. — Kurt Vonnegut

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome. — Fiona Wood

Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right. — Philippa Gregory

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces. — Bashar Al-Assad

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch. — Abraham Verghese

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. — Italo Calvino

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country. — Stella McCartney

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. — Douglas MacArthur

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. — Jan Wong

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. — Hillary Clinton

- O, to tell you the truth, retorted Gabriel suddenly, I'm sick of my own country, sick of it! — James Joyce

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