During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam.
For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, ‘You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.’
The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.
Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.
The spring’s already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country...
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.
He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.
Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country.
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.