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"758 Country Quotes

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Agreements Continue Good Keep
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thriftless People Californians Nothing
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I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Available Birth Care Ethiopia
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Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.

Observation California Decidedly Civilized
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When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

Commit Countries Lives Make
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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.
Duty Spend Money Nowhere
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Achieved something Running Exploded Country
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Eradicate poverty Matters Country Training
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What happens in the classrooms today predicts what will happen in our country in the future.
What happens Classrooms Predicts Country
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I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

About After Child Community
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Enslaving Nigerians has never been so easy with branding. There's no struggle necessary they will enter the one chance with a smile.

Enslaving Nigerian Branding Struggles
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Nigeria cannot work under an indolent, impotent, incapacitated and ignominious ruler. If the country must work, we need a True Visionary Leader beyond rhetorics with CAPACITY and Perspicacity (Clarity).

Nigeria Impotent Work Visionary Leader
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Foreign Lands Only Traveler
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Cherished Country Democracy Founders
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Action Claims Countries Down
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Better Better Way Bulgaria Chances
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

France Insist Institutions Need
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Adventures Canada Encouraged Large
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Banker Between Canada Country
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Country Demands Perfection Foreign policy
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When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Always America Country Culture
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Became California Earth Friends
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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Acknowledge America Cowardly Deny
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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
American AmericanPublic Historically Market
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Nation Young men Funeral bell
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Classes Country Course Every
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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

After Aide Association Because
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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Because Capital Characteristics Cultural
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There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Meet Unpaid Bill Nation
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America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
America Business BusinessLeaders Country
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Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

Bollywood Brazil Course Fact
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Balances Brooding Civil Civil Servants
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

About Around Away Canada
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I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

America Defend I Think Itself
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There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Democrat Democrats Even Hardly
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Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

Cities Cluster Democrats Republicans
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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

Almost Almost Everything Armed Armed Forces
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Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

Whole community Bad man Wrong Contrives
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

Being Bridges Comprehensive Crowds
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Compared Condemn Deal Distinguished
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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Actor Almost Base Being
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Living Nation People Place
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Individuals Just Like
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