Country Quotes

Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play escaping the city heat.

E B White

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Kathleen Norris

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

Alexander Woollcott

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

Henry David Thoreau

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.

Louis Kronenberger

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

Edouard Manet

A great city a great solitude.

Old proverb

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

Jane Jacobs

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.

Edgar Watson Howe

What is the city but the people?

William Shakespeare

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

Albert Camus

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

George Herbert

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings easily given to violence that we get along together because we must more than because we want to and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago that reason's realm is small that we never have been and never shall be created equal that if the human being is perfectible he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.

Robert Ardrey

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

William Hazlitt

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.

E B White

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

Louisa May Alcott

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

William Cowper

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.

Ben Aaronovitch

A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.

Bryant McGill

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at dawn. Pub brawls, rackety roadworks, mugged tourists, the badlands on a Saturday night - they all made sense, they were all part of the huge, dirty, torn social fabric. There was a war raging out there in the city and she was part of the fight, but the countryside unsettled her because she didn't know who the enemy was. She had always preferred North and South to Wuthering Heights. All that demented running around the moors, identifying yourself with the scenery, not a good role model for a woman.

Kate Atkinson

William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Mehmet Murat ildan

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.

Émile Zola

Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don’t have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!

Avi

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

J.L. Carr

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the green and elastic vigor of the young saplings; the noble form of the forest aisles, and the subdued light which penetrates their entangled boughs, combine to add to the impression; and the whole character of the scene is calculated to excite conservative feeling. The man who could remain a radical in a wood country is a disgrace to his species.

John Ruskin

If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

John Buchan

A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.

Cheryl Matthynssens

Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.

Paul Russell

Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.

Rick Riordan

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

Michael Cunningham

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Richard Peck

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Robert Frost

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Michael Thomas Ford

If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")

David Levithan

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

Nicholas Proffitt

We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Diana Gabaldon

In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

Jean Webster

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

Sandra Chami Kassis

It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.

Sunday Adelaja

We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders.

Sunday Adelaja

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

Alecia Whitaker

His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.

Alecia Whitaker

In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.

Alecia Whitaker

Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!

David Cook

South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.

Christina Engela

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