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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. -- King George V
France is an old country that needs to wake up. -- Melanie Laurent
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. -- King Tuff
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. -- Rand Paul
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. -- Anita Desai
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. -- Charles de Gaulle
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music. -- Laura Bell Bundy
And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. -- Waylon Jennings
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now. -- Tyler Hilton
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. -- Pierre Laval
I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has. -- Sarah McLachlan
Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year. -- Margaret Cho
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India's industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized companies. It is extremely important for both to do joint ventures. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us. -- Ashton Shepherd
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish. -- John Patrick Shanley
America is a young country with an old mentality. -- George Santayana
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge. -- Saxby Chambliss
Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly. -- Terri E Apter
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country. -- Kamala Harris
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' -- Kamala Harris
I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. -- Shelby Lynne
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. -- Margaret Mead
There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars." -- Larry the Cable Guy
The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people. -- Nachman of Breslov
All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease. -- Bob Hope
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. -- Charles de Gaulle
I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed. -- Karen Marie Moning
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. -- Willa Cather
It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country. -- Graham Greene
My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. -- Seymour Cassel
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. -- B. F. Skinner
I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. -- Alison Goldfrapp
Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure) -- Peter S. Beagle
When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy. -- Kenny Chesney
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. -- Hayden Christensen
If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. -- William Wyler
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. -- Craig Ferguson
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools. -- Wendy Kopp
I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound. -- Dolly Parton
I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt. -- Sara Rue
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. -- Ralph Stanley
I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. -- Joan Rivers
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them. -- Jackie Kennedy
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. -- Daniel Greenberg
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. -- George Orwell
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life. -- Charles Francis Richter
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. -- Joseph Joubert
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. -- Jim Hightower
The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today. -- Fred Thompson
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance. -- George R. Roberts
The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful. -- Ken Follett
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. -- Tanya Tucker
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. -- Lance Armstrong
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. -- Bob Feller
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. -- John Major
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. -- Louis Simpson
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them. -- Walter Bagehot
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous, -- George Will
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. -- George W. Bush
America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing. -- Petra Haden
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could. -- Loretta Lynn
American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that. -- Channing Tatum
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. -- Cameron Diaz
The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty. -- Cassandra Clare
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged. -- May Sarton
This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much. -- Byron Dorgan
It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. -- Richard Parks Bland
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will. -- Martin Sheen
Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country. -- S. J. Perelman
As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. -- Lance Morrow
I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums. -- Billy Currington

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