“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.” PeopleYearsLittlesSaidI CanCountryCan DoFourWonderfulHappenedBrotherPeriodsThings HappenHeyParisFour YearsPilotsAirplaneMarvelousFlewTime PeriodsMarvelous ThingsWright Brothers Author:Burt Rutan
“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryThreeLeftNationsVisionPovertyWonderfulBrokenDevelopmentEconomicsThirdsAidsCyclesMassiveCategoriesDividedTrappedRescueHelplessDominantViciousProsperousTaxpayersOrthodoxyThird WorldHeartlessThird World CountriesForeign AidVicious CyclesCycle Of Poverty Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.” ThinkingCountryStepsComedyWonderfulActresses Author:Fred Willard
“I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.” WantHas BeensCountryProblemBigsBeautifulKnownSunWonderfulMountainFocusedIslandsAssetsOther CountriesCoastHaiti Author:Laurent Lamothe
“I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.” ThinkingCountryPoliticalHouseStrongLeaderWonderfulLessonsToughSpeakersPolitical LeadersNancy Author:Ellen Malcolm
“The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.” WellsCountryNationsImaginationWonderfulHeardBritishWonderful Places Author:George Seaton
“Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.” CountryWonderfulGloryEnglandScotlandWonderful ThingsGreat Country Author:Joseph Hume
“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.” StillsCountryShowsLastsWonderfulBrotherPagesSlaveOur CountryGloriousLinksForgedFetters Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi
“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
“Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.” MenCountryWholeVirtueWonderfulMankindHe ManEuropeExcellenceBlowOur CountryIslandsEmpiresRegionsContinentsEgyptColumnsLibyaAtlantis Book:Gorgias and Timaeus Source: Gorgias and Timaeus
“It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!” CountryUsedStarsLinesWonderfulRight NowHollywoodTheatreLovelyUsed To BeBroadwayMeltingCrossingsDividingCrossing OverHollywood StarsMelting Away Author:Julie Andrews
“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.” MenMeanHas BeensCountryCoursesCausesSecretIssuesWonderfulOughtConscienceInnovationViolentKingdomsPernicious Author:Roger Williams
“I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.” WayMadeCountryWonderfulRight NowFameTrainingProgramPaidPhonesRingsAgentsHallsCentsHuntersHall Of FameResidualTraining ProgramsMusic HallCbc Author:Alan Thicke
“We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.” MadeCountryKidsChanceViewsSupportWifeWonderfulProgramCarefulMy WifePoint Of ViewOther CountriesBehaviour Author:Gavin MacLeod
“I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.” PeopleCountryWonderfulSouthFaith In GodGeorgiaAlabama Author:Sean Hannity