It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
There’s no glory like those who save their country.
That man’s the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
I think it’s all to the good that a writer shouldn’t be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Shoot, boy, the country’s just fulla folks what knows everything, and don’t understand nothing, just fullofem.
Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I’m older than most western countries.
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
Even if you didn’t come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who’s either going to college, shifting towns.
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.