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“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.”

World Persons Country Able Law Can Do Cities Loneliness Solitude Maps Dictator Up To You Obedient Your Freedom

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.”

“I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what is going on and discover that the perceptions in Washington aren't necessarily accurate.”

Thinking Country Certain Realizing Cities Perception Accurate

Author:Rosalynn Carter

“Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.”

Art Country House Sides Cities Tree Window California Suburbs Californians Country Houses

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man

“(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”

Way Country Cities Majors Murder Rap Chicago

Book:The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition

Source: The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition

“The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.”

Ends Country Problem Religious Cities Moral Awful Lifts Suggestions

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.”

World Country Matter Speak Language Cities Lovers Clothes Continents Don't Change Family Friends Clothes You Wear

Book:Ketchup Clouds

Source: Ketchup Clouds

“I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”

“Anyway, a spokesman for Barack Obama says the prisoners that are released from Guantanamo will either be sent back to their home countries or enter the New York City cab driver training program.”

Country Home Cities New York Training Program Barack Drivers Prisoner New York City Cab Guantanamo Home Country Training Programs Cab Drivers

Author:Jay Leno

“in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.”

Country Cities Streets Crowds Live Life Shops Lives Of Others

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.”

Way Different Country Bigs Cities Boys South Raised My Way City Life Big Cities Momma Country Boy

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. Im a people watcher.”

People World Way Persons Different Country Use Cities Style Inspire Color Individuality Patterns Around The World Destination Discovering Airports Lipstick Watchers

Author:Camila Alves

“Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.”

Country Cities Football College Coaches College Football

Author:Lou Holtz

“We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.”

Country States Running Cities Baby American Politics Cotton

Author:Jesse Jackson

“In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.”

People Kind Country Hard Cities Cold Concrete Steel

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.”

“I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.”

Ifs Thinking Country Cities Successful Wise Standards Fairs Determine Our Country Usa Being Successful Not Fair Double Standard

Author:Charles Barkley

“You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.”

People World Country America Nations Levels Cities Seeing Crime Thirds Violent Welcome Mexico Rivals Third World Kidnapped Mexico City Third World Countries

Author:Gerald Celente

“I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.”

“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.”

“I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.”

Writing Country Bigs Culture Cities New York Pride Gay Compliment Grit Gay Pride Being Played

Author:Jennifer Nettles

“In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.”

Thinking Art Country Sometimes Sports Cities Player Team Involved Outcomes Interaction Sports Team Public Art

Author:Janet Echelman

“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.”

“In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.”

“I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.”

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Author:Steve Reich

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.”

Men World Littles Has Beens Country Numbers Cities Known Produce Ten Towns Reputation Great Men Compliment Twelve

Book:The citizen of the world

Source: The citizen of the world

“In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.”

Art Country Poetry Cities Fields Poet Winter Cousin Glitter Great Cities Feasting

Author:Mason Cooley

“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”

Men May Important Country Moments Stories Government Political Politics Fear Cities Struggle Office Men And Women Surface Suspects Delightful Clerks Underpaid

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.”

People Country Christian Cities Moral Duty Credit Revival Beggar Monotony Drunkards Country Life Methodists Moral Duty Backsliding

Author:Corra May Harris

“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.”

People Littles Country Community Business Cities Citizens Towns Our Country Stakes Better Off Cities And Towns

Author:John Hancock

“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.”

Children Country Helping Pain Life Is Suffering House Cities Wife Trouble Subjects Like You Neighbor Trials Stations Household Suffering And Pain City And Country

Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.”

Littles Country Kids Wanted Film Cities New York Television Keys Glasses Artificial Little Kid Martini Key To Happiness Film And Television Artificial Life Penthouses

Author:Tom Ford

“You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.”

“City wits, country humorists.”

Country Funny Cities Wit Humorists

Author:Mason Cooley

“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.”

Country Cities Power Decency Country Life Knowledge And Power

Author:Mason Cooley

“We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.”

World Children Country States Community Cities Changing The World

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”

Country Pain Challenges Cities Knowing Towns Small Town Smallness City And Country

Author:William P. Young

“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.”

Ifs Children Country Enough Cities

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”

Country Poor Cities Study Rich Passionate Possession Obsession Texas Texan Rich Poor

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”

Country Lost Loses Cities Half Summer Winter Appeals Charming Acquaintance Country Life

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.”

Giving Doe Country Cities Solitude

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.”

People Thinking Should Trying Country Helping Together Cities Groups Taxes Benefits Towns Just Being Helping Each Other Large Groups Paying Taxes

Author:Michael Schur

“One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.”

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Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

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