Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
Quotes about countryman (8 Quotes)
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
It's always hard to play a countryman. We are very very good friends and do a lot of things off the court.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
In my mind, the artist was making fun of Colorado. He's saying, 'You guys couldn't do it, but we can.' Some say the character in the poster is what an Austrian countryman looks like, but no one's going to convince me it's not making fun of Colorado.
What relations with the Russian government can a man who was born in the Russian Federation have I am from Siberia, by the way. I believe people there consider me as their fellow countryman.