Colorful Country Quotes & Sayings

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Number two on my list is simple. I must say yes to everything for one whole day. Whatever it is and whoever asks it of me. — Jenny Downham

Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world. — Bernard Bailyn

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out. — Barbra Streisand

The reaction of the people below to this fantastic sight and sound was one of wild excitement. Details could be seen vividly from aloft. An elderly man and woman fell to their knees and prayed. People in the villages stood still and gaped upward. Most of them still had their Sunday finery on. "You could see people going to church...man, wife, and child walking along the country roads." Bombardier Herbert Light, through his binoculars, saw an open-air festival in progress, with the women dressed in colorful skirts and blouses. One of them threw her apron over her head in panic.
As they roared over the wheat fields, the first unfriendly acts occurred: farmers threw stones and pitchforks at them. One farmer leading two horses was startled by the advancing planes and leaped into a nearby stream. A girl swimming in another river was reported by ten separate crews. — Leon Wolff

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think. — Sue Monk Kidd

Unless you seek out help for your symptoms, you'll never really know that that's not how everyone feels. You go through life thinking that this is how you feel in certain situations and that I can ease the tensions by doing this or that. — Matty Mullins

The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? "When you say you are," he said. I — Jeff Goins

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you. — Naomie Harris

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century. — Barbara Mikulski

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. — Robert Smithson

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them. — St. Jerome

...the liquor like fire in his hand — Sharon Olds

Sometimes one finds that their role in life is to be a supporting character to someone who is destined for greatness. Maybe the world at large doesn't appreciate it, but to the principal and the supporter it can be a very rewarding life. The opinion of the world doesn't really matter in such situations. — Lazlo Zalezac

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? — Simon Bolivar