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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

Nation, Country, Feeling

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nation, Country

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Harry S. Truman, American President

Nation, Country, Teaching, Today, World

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

Nation, Country, Storms

"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Nation, America, Country, Discovery, Greatness

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

Nation, Country, Rest

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Nation, Country

"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Nation, Nationality, Truth, Life, Power

"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

Nation, Country, Saying

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nation, Country, Paris

Explore more quotes by Margaret Anderson

"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

Creativity

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

Intellectual

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."

Love

"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."

Sane

"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."

Self-Preservation

"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."

Inspirational

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."

Enemy

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Life

"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

Nation