Country Quotes

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

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

Willa Cather, My Antonia

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

William Shakespeare