Quotes of: European-countries Keyword

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Cities & Countries

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

Called To Excel

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

Flaubert's Parrot

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

The Gate to Women's Country

Congratulations, Mousey, you’ve managed to insult every marsupial in the country in just under three kilometers.

Alice in Wonderland

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.

Alison Jackson

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

George Edward Woodberry

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches.

Helio Castroneves

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

Randall Terry

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

Joe Lieberman

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Carlos Slim

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

The October Country

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Little Bee

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

A Quick Bite

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Barbara Mikulski