Country Over City Anytime Quotes & Sayings

As Plato said, Be kind to everyone you meet, for we are all fighting a fierce battle. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lips are kind of like my thing, and I've always been obsessed with lipstick and lip liner. I just always went to lip liner to overline my lips, and I feel like I was really known for that. I can't walk out of my house without my lipstick! — Kylie Jenner

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly. — Jose Canseco

A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account. — Sanober Khan

On the plane he had been confident. He'd talked to the vieja near the aisle, telling her how excited he was. It is always good to return home, she said tremulously. I come back anytime I can, which isn't so much anymore. Things aren't good. Seeing the country he'd been born in, seeing his people in charge of everything, he was unprepared for it. The air whooshed out of his lungs. For nearly four years he'd not spoken his Spanish loudly in front of the Northamericans and now he was hearing it bellowed and flung from every mouth. His pores opened, dousing him as he hadn't been doused in years. An awful heat was on the city and the red dust dried out his throat and clogged his nose. The poverty- the unwashed children pointing sullenly at his new shoes, the familias slouching in hovels- was familiar and stifling. — Junot Diaz

I'd learned never to be a snob until I got to know a person's worth; and how can you get to know a person well if you don't have coffee together? — Costas Taktsis

Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this. — Nana Awere Damoah

I told her that I belong to you, and no other. — Marie Rutkoski

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything. — Jon Hamm

I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures. — Andrea Michaels

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought. — Timothy Brook

Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are people who take delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste. Speaking for humanity in general, the poor accept charity with a shame and loss of self-respect that is truly pitiful. — Mario Puzo

Obviously the way that I talk and the way that I dress all has to do with the way that I was raised. As far as the drive, when I was 18 or 21 years old, everything I did was because I wanted to go play music simply because that's what I wanted to do. — Cody Johnson

I have learned that everyone else in the world is boring except you. — Julie Anne Long

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon. — Florence King

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless. — Dustin Hoffman