I grew up in a small rural town and there’s just something about country quotes that just seems to make sense. Maybe it’s the simple, down-to-earth wisdom they contain. Or maybe it’s the way they remind us of the beauty and simplicity of life in the country. Whatever it is, these country quotes are a great reminder of why we love living in America.
But whether you love living in the country or love living in the city, we all share something in common: We love our country. Whether it’s loving the country life or feeling a sense of duty and patriotism, these 73 quotes celebrate our patriotism. Enjoy!
Let the country quotes begin!
1) “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
2) “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
3) “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be…original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
4) “Being in the country is like being in a dream – one doesn’t quite know who one is.” – Meia Geddes
5) “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” – Douglas Macarthur
6) “The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.” – Lori Lansens
7) “I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
8) “Country is the way you live. Not the way you look.” – Unknown
9) “Cow dung and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far side of their smell there is hay and grass.” – John Berger
10) “Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.” – Nina Hagen
11) “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” – Edward Abbey
12) “Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.” – Dale Carnegie
13) “Patriotism is easy to understand in America – it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” – Calvin Coolidge
14) “In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one’s friends – give me the country.” – D. H. Lawrence
A classic quote by John F. Kennedy…
15) “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
16) “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” – J.B. Priestley
17) “If a country girl is smiling, she’s thinking of doing something crazy. If she’s laughing, she has already done it.” – Unknown
18) “God made the country, and man made the town.” – William Cowper
19) “Country life has its advantages…You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good…and there are gooseberries.” – Anton Chekhov
20) “I have no country to fight for; My country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” – Eugene V. Debs
21) “Keep calm and stay country.” – Unknown
22) “My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.” – Mark Twain
Country Quotes by Mason Cooley
23) “Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.” – Mason Cooley
24) “City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.” – Mason Cooley
25) “The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God.” – William Penn
26) “I like my country music at the volume where I can’t hear you complaining about it.” – Unknown
27) “Listen patiently, quietly, and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach… so that all who will, may see and know.” – Luther Burbank
28) “I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.” – Lord Byron
29) “Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.” – Felix Adler
30) “Loving own country is to love peace.” – Aftab Alam
31) “The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the perfect musical drama.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
32) “I prefer the country life.” – Ziggy Marley
33) “If country life is healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.” – Giovanni Ruffini
34) “In love of home, the love of country has its rise.” – Charles Dickens
35) “Country is in your blood not in your closet.” – Unknown
36) “No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
37) “The milking machines sounded tranquilizing, and there was the collegiality of seventy animal spirits thriving, warming the barn with cud-chewing, nose-snuffling, and sisterly mammalhood.” – Edward Hoagland
38) “Country music is good for the soul.” – Unknown
Love your country…
39) “I love my country more than anything else.” – Ehud Olmert
40) “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
41) “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Watterson
42) “City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.” – Stephen King
43) “Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.” – William Cowper
44) “Not by human dwellings not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them.” – Solomon Northup
45) “One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.” – Nathaniel Parker Willis
46) “The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” – Stonewall Jackson
47) “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” – Adlai Stevenson
48) “People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.” – PJ Harvey
49) “I would rather hear cows mooing and roosters crowing than horns honking.” – Unknown
50) “I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.” – Miranda Kerr
Country Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
51) “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
52) “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.” – Theodore Roosevelt
53) “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
54) “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
55) “I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.” – Vita Sackville-West
56) “Take care of all your memories…For you cannot relive them.” – Bob Dylan
57) “The city reveals the moral ends of being and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us…” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
58) “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” – William J. Clinton
59) “They accepted death to set you free.” – Unknown
60) “The things that the flag stands for were created by experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.” – Woodrow Wilson
61) “Country things are the necessary root of our life – and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.” – Esther Meynell
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62) “To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
63) “True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” – Clarence Darrow
64) “There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.” – Agnes Repplier
65) “If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” – Luther Burbank
66) “Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven, and imprint forever upon our hearts that this is home and that we are loved.” – Arlene Stafford-Wilson
67) “I was born with my heart on my sleeve, a fire in my soul, and a mouth I can’t control.” – Unknown
68) “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” – Ronald Reagan
69) “She’s whiskey in a teacup.” – Unknown
70) “The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.” – Horace
71) “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'” – Lewis Carroll
72) “I would choose country life over city life any day.” – Unknown
73) “You can’t handle my level of country music addiction.” – Unknown
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