writer Quotes
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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They’re like strange countries that you have to enter.