A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
When people make my country look bad, I can’t stand it.
I’ve enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I’ve been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they’re still very beautiful.
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only ‘so much they can do’ to take care of the ‘problem.’
America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, ‘Our gays are better than their gays,’ but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela’s face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.
Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can’t work anymore.
Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
What bosom beast not in his country’s cause?
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we’d be in a lot of trouble.
Although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.