Quotes of: European-countries Keyword

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

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The Quotable Jefferson

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Red Country

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Travels With Myself

The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.

Voice of Reason

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes." (King Pelles the Sure)

We Never Talk about My Brother

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning