Good Country Quotes:

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Country, Roots, Good Country

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Country, America, People, Good Country, Good Values

It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.

- Yann Martel

topic: Country, Writing, People, Good Country

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Country, Thinking, Good Things, Good Country

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

source: "Huntsman joins WH race, promising jobs, civility" by Beth Fouhy, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 21, 2011.

topic: Country, Political, Today, Good Country, Political Debates

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

- Paul Anka

topic: Country, Perspective, Canada, Good Country, Slower Pace

I've travelled around the world, I've lived in Germany, I've lived in the United States, I've visited many countries, I can question why such a good country, such huge potential, why we don't develop in the right way.

- Vitali Klitschko

topic: Country, Motivation, World, Good Country

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Family, Country, Song, Good Country

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

- Conway Twitty

topic: Country, Song, Pages, Good Country

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

- Larry McMurtry

source: Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: Country, Philosophy, Simple, Good Country, Adverbs

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Country, World, Enthusiasm, Good Country

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

- Frederick Forsyth

source: "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

topic: Country, Years, Mugabe, Josef Stalin, Brezhnev