Quotes about Country
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just
- Thomas Jefferson
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
- CS Lewis
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
- Calvin Coolidge
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.
- Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.
- Isabel Allende
it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.
- Isabel Allende
They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.
- Isabel Allende
You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.
- Isabel Allende
I was fifteen when I returned to Santiago, disoriented from having lived several years outside the country and from having lost my ties with my old friends and my cousins.
- Isabel Allende
I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.
- Ruth Westheimer