Quotes with country-town

Quotes 161 till 180 of 817.

  • Dwight L. Moody Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Anne Campbell Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • A.J. Cronin Even if my country remains in war with yours... remember... i am not your enemy.
    A.J. Cronin
    Scottish novelist and physician (1896 - 1981)
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  • Ben Whishaw Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Brandi Carlile Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Erica Jong Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre Every country has the government it deserves.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carl Sagan Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Bob Latta Everyone wants clean air and clean water, but my hope is that we will not regulate it to the point where we drive businesses and industries out of this country, to the point where entrepreneurs cannot start or expand their businesses because they simply can't afford to do so.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Truman Capote Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Brad Holland Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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