Quotes of: Country-club Keyword

In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is , something which is 'wholly mother'.

Journey Through Europe

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Killosophy

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Rizal without the Overcoat

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Spook Country

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

In a Sunburned Country

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

In a Sunburned Country

To endow clock time with numinous meaning <...> [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

The Savage & Beautiful Country

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The October Country

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

The October Country

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

Leo Africanus

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

The Lacuna

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

Letter from the Birmingham Jail

I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.

Letters

There aren’t two political parties in this country, it’s all just one big party—and the citizens aren’t invited.

Sleepwalking is restercise

He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars.

Phone Kitten

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

Palimpsest