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“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.”

Way Stills Country States Lasts Sports United United States Saws Seeing One Thing Missing Changed Western My Way Last Time Great Sports Pristine Hitchhiking Open Road

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.”

People Country Political Missing New York Legal System Overreaction

Author:Marc Rich

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Country Moments Use Opportunity Winning Loses Challenges Acting Talking Missing Serious Smart Tough Election Our Country Secure Opponents Partisans Playbooks

Author:Barack Obama

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.”

People Thinking Long Country Running Able Economy One Thing Missing Long Runs Education System Public Education American Economy

Author:Michelle Rhee

“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.”

“I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.”

Country Deals Missing Citizens Australian

Book:Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Source: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

“Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.”

“Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.”

Has Beens Country Seems Church Missing Empty Rounds Corners Horizon Towers Spares Jewels Lanes Necklaces Norfolk

Author:John Betjeman

“Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.”

People Country Young Religious Levels Missing Grew Grew Up Jew Israel Orthodox Pot Melting New Experiences Melting Pot Non Religious

Author:Noma Bar

“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.”

People Knows Country Action Together Form Guy Cutting Missing Scene Conscious Understood Hollywood Horse Western Mediums Criticize Vehicle Bad Guys Good Guy Nuance Scenery

Author:John Wayne

“This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.”

Two Country America Choices President Missing Strange Select Two Choices Miss America

Author:Jay Leno

“Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.”

Country Hands Running Three Wonderful Middle Missing Couple Upset Staying Florida Palms Middle Aged Motels

Author:Emo Philips

“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.”

“People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.”

People Knows Country Beautiful Missing Havens Train Airplane Traffic Passengers Countryside Railroads Missing It Beautiful Country

Author:Ken Kelly

“I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.”

Want Country Running President Missing Vote

Author:Marco Rubio

“Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!”

Made Country Sometimes Beautiful Missing Fast Paced

Author:Valerie June

“I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.”

Thinking I Can Different Country Missing Poet Contemporary Urgency Different Times Different Countries American Poetry

Author:Christian Wiman

“Off pitch, I keep things simple. I enjoy spending time with my family. I never forget my roots and regularly give back to children in West Africa. I support several youth associations, and I am also involved in the protection of the forest in my country [Ivory Coast]. When away from home, I mostly miss people and enjoying a good laugh with my peers.”

“But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.”

People Ifs World Country Together Force United Growing Influence Missing Europe Tables Prosperity Kingdoms Compromise Best Things United Kingdom Forging

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.”

People Feels Country Helping Eye Difficult President Special Military Missing Duty Committed Defense Obligation Our Country Assignments Kinship Wartime

Author:George W. Bush

“I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.”

Years Different Country Reality Culture Courses Found Speak Bits Fantasy Missing New York South Versions France Village Realistic Spells Worn Fluent Small Villages French Culture

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.”

People Thinking Country Animal Missing Building Garden Tradition Neighbor Honestly Craving

Author:Novella Carpenter

“There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.”

Children Country Problem Kids School Belief Parent Missing Performing

Author:Michelle Rhee

“I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."”

People Thinking Country Home Missing Going Home

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“Indonesia is now undeniably a ruined country. It has sunk to the level of sub-Saharan African nations. It has malls and luxury hotels in several cities, but in between them it is an absolute nightmare, with all the basic services either missing, or on a totally inadequate level.”

Country Missing Hotel Nightmare Inadequate

Author:Andre Vltchek

“When you move to the city, you really notice how ugly people can be. And that's something you don't really have to deal with in the country. So I do miss that.”

People Country Moving Missing Ugly Ugly People

Author:Lydia Loveless

“I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.”

Different Country Opportunity Realizing Missing Blessed Significant Stereotype Being Blessed Pageant

Author:Rima Fakih

“I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get more out of watching pop-culture play out in unusual ways in a foreign country. Who knows?”

Thinking Country Missing Direct Unusual

Author:Karan Mahajan

“People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.”

People Thinking Country Interest Attitude Rich Missing Extraordinary

Author:Francisco Goldman

“I never wanted to write about Bulgaria. When I was still living there I did my absolute best to never write a story with a Bulgarian character with a Bulgarian name, and only after I came to the US and I was far away and missing it a great deal did I realize that writing about could be my way of returning back home. I think it was only through my writing that I fell in love with the country and with the history.”

Thinking Writing Country Character Home Realizing Missing My Way Far Away

Author:Miroslav Penkov

“I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States, you're missing it." Because there are Trump-like events happening across the Western world, in Warsaw Pact countries, in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands. As we speak, the second-largest party in the Dutch legislature - who's more level-headed than the Dutch? - is Geert Wilders's party, which is a very Trump-like party, and they've got 33 out of 150 seats.”

Thinking World Country Speak Party Missing Western Pact

Author:David Frum

“I have the best friends in the world. I miss my friends, I miss my family but they always come out and visit me. I went to boarding school in the country so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane.”

World Real Country School Missing My Family Insane Family And Friends

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.”

People Should Humans Country Fighting Human Beings Missing Preserves Detest

Author:Dennis Miller

“I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.”

Country Missing Preference Panama

Author:Mariano Rivera

“I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.”

Feels Country Home Missing My Friends My Family Hanging Out Feels Right Physicality Home Country

Author:Orlando Bloom

“Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems