A country song is a song about life.
‐‐ Alan Jackson
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
‐‐ Jairam Ramesh
A country that cannot support entrepreneurship has no hope.
‐‐ Lu Guanqiu
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
‐‐ Imran Khan
A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.
‐‐ Ali Babacan
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin
A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
‐‐ Phillip Phillips
A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.
‐‐ Johnny Knoxville
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
‐‐ Brit Marling
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
‐‐ Patrick Marber
A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.
‐‐ Reece Thompson
A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke
A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon
A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
‐‐ Tom Colicchio
A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union
A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh
A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.
‐‐ Pras Michel
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
‐‐ Ivor Novello
A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
‐‐ Eddi Reader
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
‐‐ Taya Kyle
A couple of websites I've come across credit the 'New York Times' for reporting that 12,000 women a year are arrested for breastfeeding in public. I could not confirm that number with a quick search, but even 1,200 would be too many - or even 12.
‐‐ David Horsey
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
‐‐ George Stephen
A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some grocery shopping. One person came up to me in the frozen food aisle, and that was it. I was mobbed, and I had to leave my shopping. Now, I either shop online or go very late at night when the supermarket's nearly empty.
‐‐ Nicola Adams
A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.
‐‐ Fred Funk
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
‐‐ Peter Jennings
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas
A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'
‐‐ Aimee Mullins
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.
‐‐ Joan Van Ark
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were a little boy.' It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.
‐‐ Terry Wogan
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
‐‐ Russell Banks
A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca
A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.
‐‐ Jason Newsted
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
‐‐ Richard Russo
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
‐‐ Joe Henderson
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.
‐‐ Anna Kournikova
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas
'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
‐‐ David A. Bednar
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
‐‐ Russell M. Nelson
A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.
‐‐ Michael Pollan
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
‐‐ Ron Chernow
A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
‐‐ Juan Manuel Fangio
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
‐‐ Federico Fellini