Quotes with country-town

Quotes 201 till 220 of 817.

  • Bill Flores Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Buford Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Alfred de Musset Great artists have no country.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • B. B. King Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bono Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Don Marquis He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Winston Churchill Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bao Dai Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bob Ney Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Al Gore How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Emily Brontë I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I am proud of my work for my country.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Michelle Obama I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
    Michelle Obama
    lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (1964 - )
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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