Quotes of: Old-country Keyword

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevanc...

Winona LaDuke

The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.

Dude, Where's My Country?

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Ghostwritten

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Sidney Sheldon

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Richard Dreyfuss

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A.G. Street's Country Calendar

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

I Capture the Castle

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

Soul Music

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

The Third World; Country or People

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

The Third World; Country or People

The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that ...

Pat Boone

In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressiv...

Veerappa Moily

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Margaret Chan

My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.

Pauline Marois

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Paul Wolfowitz

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

Rush Limbaugh