“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'” WorldShouldFirstsCountryTodayWinningBitsAnimalRaceFiveFourFeetLuckyEqualThirdsHorseShoesRanDucksFifthHorseshoes Author:Eddie Izzard
“To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.” KnowsCountryEyeFallFightingWinningNationsFeetDyingAngelRegardBraveSnowUniformsPatriotBosomsMiscellaneousProcessionCavalry Book:Dickinson Source: Dickinson
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.” WayLooksLongHas BeensStillsCountryLeftBlackPresidentFeetRepublicanMovedImprovementStuckTreatedPresident ObamaMudLong WayRight DirectionLong Way To Go Author:Hank Aaron
“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.” BookCountryRunningWaterLinesBreakSeaFeetLandRocksProudShadowGreenWingsWaveFlightHillsGiantsShorePalePausesGlancesEaglesFlingCompact Book:The Herries Chronicles Source: The Herries Chronicles
“Communism has established centres of infection... No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean...We need a massive injection of money to reset the country on its feet, and this injection can come only from our great, capable friend and neighbor the United States.” WorldNeedsCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesFeetSecurityCapableAreasNeighborCommunismMassiveCentreInfectionCaribbeanResetInjection Author:Francois Duvalier
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.” PeopleWorldMayCountryHandsSeemsGovernmentAmericaOpportunityWinningFeetVoteTriumphRepresentativesOther CountriesConferences Author:Franklin A. Thomas
“The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.” PeopleIdeasCountryWholeDemocracyPathFeetShapesLaborVoteOur CountryVigilance Author:Eugene Jarecki
“I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.” PeopleCountryDifferencesFeetMilesBombsAirplaneRobotsDronesMiles AwayPlaystation Author:Gary Oldman
“Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.” HeartCountryFeetColdCanada Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us such a world power. Hundreds of millions of people may never set foot in the United States, but thanks to you, they've experienced a small part of what makes our country special. They've learned something about our values. We have shaped a world culture through you...in a way that has made the world better.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveMayMadeCountryStatesValuesCultureUnitedMillionsUnited StatesFeetSpecialEntertainmentOur CountryThanksDiplomacyExceptionalSmall PartsWorld Power Author:Barack Obama
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.” WorldNeedsCountryCharacterGivenFeetProductsIndustryConnectionsProductionsSurfaceSettlingConsumptionExploitationGlobesConsumerismExpandingOverconsumptionReactionariesBourgeoisieChagrin Author:Karl Marx
“My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.” CountryGoalFeetFrance Author:Francois Hollande
“I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBelievePersonsI CanCountryFactsUseGovernmentWantedEarthRememberFacesFormHouseFeetBuiltDespiteAccomplishmentEnterpriseRemarkableSquaresOther CountriesEarningAdequateHousingPrivate Enterprise Author:Leonard Read
“From my experience in my country, America over and over again takes itself right to the brink, it puts one foot over but it never goes over. It wakes up at the last minute and says woah, and then pulls back...” CountryLastsAmericaFeetMinutesWake UpOver ItLast Minute Author:Robert Redford
“If you had a personal trainer, you would probably eat him. I know that in every fat person, there's a skinny person inside, but you could have all the season's contestants of America's Next Top Model in you. I hope I get reincarnated as your feet. That way, you'd never see my face again... Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have insulted you. Because in my country, cows are sacred.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsCountryAmericaFacesNextFeetModelsSeasonsSacredSorryFatsCowsI'm SorrySkinnyTrainersInsultedContestantsTop Model Author:George Lopez
“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.” ThinkingWorldTwoRealCountryEyeAgeWantedYoungMy OwnDecisionGrowing UpGrowingFeetTaughtThirdsReal WorldYoung AgeThird WorldKenyaThird World Countries Author:Chris Froome
“I remember when I was first starting out in the late 50's, and everybody at that time said rock 'n roll was gonna die. I was 15 years old when I started, and I certainly didn't believe that was true. I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can't be a passing fad like everybody says. Of course, they were wrong, and here we are in the 90's and it's alive and well, and getting programmed all over the country, and really all over the world. So it's been a great journey.” WorldWantFeelsYearsFirstsBelieveWellsSaidCountryRememberDiesCoursesAliveJourneyFeetRocksLateStartingPassingPassingsRock N RollRemember WhenFadsStarting OutGreat Journeys Author:Bobby Vee
“I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" .” PeopleCountrySometimesWholeSawsFeetInvolvedVoteCrisisIsraelSelflessnessPalestineJimmyCarter Author:David Mandel
“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.” LooksHas BeensMadeCountryHomeBehindsGreaterFeetLandHigherDrinkEternalIndiaAncientSoilMarchOther CountriesSageFountainBrighter Author:Swami Vivekananda
“It's just the banks who are the latest target of the American socialist left. There is a war on the entirety of the private sector. It is the private sector that employs most of you, that services most of you, that creates the economic prosperity that our nation has enjoyed - and there is a war on that private sector, and it's being waged from the Oval Office, and its foot soldiers are on Wall Street and in other cities around the country.” WarCountryLeftNationsCitiesFeetEconomicStreetsWallOfficeSoldierProsperityEnjoyedTargetSocialistPrivate SectorEntiretyOvalEconomic Prosperity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We allow immigrants here, happily so. We don't deny legal immigrants a path to citizenship in this country. But beyond that, since we can't take in everybody, since everybody can't come here, it's physically not possible - well, it is. You know you could put the population of the world inside the state of Texas in 1,500-square-feet homes. I mean, you wouldn't want to, but you could do it.” KnowsWorldWantWellsMeanCountryStatesReasonHomeAmericaLawCasesPathFeetIntegrityPopulationDenyImmigrantsTexasSquaresCitizenshipMigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.” MenWorldShouldCountryEyeEarthKnowledgeFeetHis EyesPatriotismPatrioticRepublicPatriot4th Of JulySurveysGreat PatrioticIndependence Day PatrioticRepublic DayJuly 4th 1776Inspirational PatrioticJuly 4Indian Patriotic Author:George Santayana