Old Country Quotes: top 71 famous quotes about Old Country

Old Country Quotes & Sayings

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I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. — Alison Goldfrapp

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

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. — Rand Paul

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty. — Cassandra Clare

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

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' — Kamala Harris

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that. — Channing Tatum

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. — William Wyler

France is an old country that needs to wake up. — Melanie Laurent

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.
(King Pelles the Sure) — Peter S. Beagle

I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old. — Tora Berger

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. — Ralph Stanley

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease. — Bob Hope

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain. — Kathleen Norris

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

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly. — Terri E Apter

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people. — Nachman Of Breslov

Country music is about new love and it's about old love. — Jeff Foxworthy

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. — Loretta Lynn

Call it, friend-O" (No Country For Old Men) — Cormac McCarthy

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. — Edith Wharton

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. — Joseph Joubert

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. — Shelby Lynne

It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it. — Cormac McCarthy

There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars." — Larry The Cable Guy

THE OLD COUNTRY, 1731 F — J.R. Ward

Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back! — Johnnie Dent Jr.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. — Margaret Mead

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues. — Hank Williams Jr.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy. — Kenny Chesney

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. — Karen Marie Moning

You miss the old country. Of course you do. But you don't go back. — Eleanor Catton

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country. — Graham Greene

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt. — Sara Rue

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

I listen to top 40, old country, blues ... I'm really into Roger Miller. — King Tuff

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. — Daniel Greenberg

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. — Jim Hightower

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country. — G. Willow Wilson

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen. — Rose Tremain

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. — George Orwell

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

some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen, — Catherine Coulter

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and — Kenneth Grahame

America is a young country with an old mentality. — George Santayana

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. — Craig Ferguson

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will. — Martin Sheen

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best. — George H. W. Bush

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying. — Flora Thompson

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old. — Maggie Stiefvater

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them. — Jean Giraudoux

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. — Charles De Gaulle

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. — Cameron Diaz

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. — Joan Rivers

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. — B.F. Skinner

Where'd you get that pistol?
At the gettin place — Cormac McCarthy

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there ... all the heartbreak of the country darkness. — Theophilus London

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco. — John Prendergast

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them. — Walter Bagehot

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather

All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet. — Cormac McCarthy

I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge. — Saxby Chambliss

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. — Bob Feller

Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country. — Ryu Murakami

The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill. — Wallace Stevens

'No Country for Old Men' was epic. — Eric Fellner

Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools. — Wendy Kopp