“I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.” CountryStatesLightTodayRememberPresidentDemocracyPlansBecomingInstitutionsClintonScandalVergeColombiaPresident Clinton Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.” ThinkingKindPersonsCountryRememberChicagoDirtDirt Roads Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.” HumansLongHas BeensCountryWholeSeemsRememberNationsCommunityPowerfulCitiesKnownLandAchievementAreasConnectionsSurprisingVery PowerfulHuman SocietySettlementRural AreasPowerful Words Book:The Country and the City Source: The Country and the City
“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.” PeopleIfsWayYearsCountryReasonMotivationalRememberDiesThreeReadingLosesNumbersProveRetiringThree YearsContributingWill To LiveProve To Me Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.” MeanCountryPlayRunningRememberGamesSunSummerBallsGlovesCountry LoveSummer Sun Author:Grantland Rice
“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?” CountryRememberWest Author:Walter de La Mare
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansKindMayWarCountryEarthLastsRememberNiceHuman NaturePolicyFieldsPlanetsLuckyMajorsHarmRememberedForeign PolicyLast TimePlanet Earth Author:Tom Clancy
“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.” PeopleIfsMeanWarCountryAmericaRememberWhiteForgetChristianityMillionsIndustryDiedSoldierDestroyedFacilityAntagonism Author:Sun Myung Moon
“The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.” MeanCountryLightTodayAmericaRememberLibertyPrinciplesDemocratProtectionGrantedEmpiresBullyStatuesStatue Of Liberty Author:Jerry Springer
“It's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it's a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.” WayImportantCountryRememberResponsibilityHugeSourceFortunateCurrencySource Of StrengthBond Market Author:Lawrence Summers
“But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!” CountryWholeRememberEconomicSpecialCreationPleaseDemandZoneParliamentChamberPolish Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke
“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.” MenWayArtCountryAgeRememberLyingHistoryNiceRocksHumourPatrioticDiplomacyDiplomats Author:Robert Frost
“It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.” LooksBookCountryEnoughRememberFilmDecidedHollywoodDiscoveringLocationScotlandScottishArthurConsulting Author:Andrew O'Hagan