Quotes with country-western

Quotes 361 till 380 of 807.

  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
    - +
     0
  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Goldwater It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
    - +
     0
  • Austan Goolsbee It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ronald Reagan It's difficult to believe that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.
    New conference, 11-06-1986
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Carlos Slim It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Shashi Tharoor It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benazir Bhutto It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Tsitsi Dangarembga It’s bad enough when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Camille Paglia Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benedict Wong Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
    - +
     0
  • Daniel Webster Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
    - +
     0
  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • George W. Bush Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
    On December 1, 2007, at Heartland Democratic Forum
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Clinton Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Jordan Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
    - +
     0
All country-western famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 19)