#tries

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#back #countries #denied #got #ground

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. ↗

— Eric Liu

#became #become #citizens #citizenship #conference

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#call #called #changed #countries #developed

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#been #countries #farewell #go #i

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#countries #does #each #global #global warming

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#everybody #jazz #play #tries

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#always #blessed #can-do #circumstances #countries

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#any #countries #deployments #given #states

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies. ↗

— David Kay

#being #certainly #countries #deny #easy

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #america #areas #attempt #badly