Country Metaphor Quotes & Sayings

You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you. — Rachel Higginson

Besides, he's our best chance of finding her." It takes me a moment to register that the "her" they're referring to is me. — Suzanne Collins

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune. — Maureen O'Hara

The image of life forces diluted and diseased by contact with the intruders revealed a telling insecurity. How confident were these men in the power of their idealized country or in themselves as its protectors? Where was the tradition of resilience and absorbing strength that their florid rhetoric celebrated at other times? In the very metaphor of infection, the nativists uncovered their fears that "America" was but a fragile essence. Like latter-day "defenders" who saw other alien dangers in communism, they attributed enormous influence to the enemy. Their angry words betrayed the desperation of those who half fear the battle is already lost. — David H. Bennett

I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall. — Felipe Esparza

The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism. — Anthony Robbins

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free. — Sandra J. Jackson

In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place. — Charlie Pierce

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin. — Eugen Sandow

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. — Dee Dee Myers

Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of nowhere, designed to warehouse lives. People are still people, though, so we turned the projects into real communities, poor or not. We played in fire hydrants and had cookouts and partied, music bouncing off concrete walls. But even when we could shake off the full weight of those imposing buildings and try to just live, the truth of our lives and struggle was still invisible to the larger country. The rest of the country was freed of any obligation to claim us. Which was fine, because we weren't really claiming them, either. — Jay-Z

For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth. — Pam Houston

Nerds always say they don't give a shit about popularity; but - not having friends sucks. I never liked quote unquote cool kids, personally - I thought they were all dumb little shits. — John Green

Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney Company

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette. — Paul Collier

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. — Duane T. Gish

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. — Barbra Streisand

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp

I smash guitars because I like them. — Pete Townshend

But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor. — Timothy O'Grady