"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot."

Nation,

169

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot."

Exlpore more Nation quotes

"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

"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

"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

"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

Jane Byrne, American Politician

Nation,

"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

Nation, Canada, Country, Desire, Present

"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

Nation, Canada, Spiritual

Explore more quotes by Corazon Aquino

"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."

Politics

"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."

Power

"I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles."

Miracles

"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."

Power

"I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad."

Life

"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."

People

"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom."

People

"All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride."

People

"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."

Faith

"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot."

Nation