Country Names

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or names:

“City wits, country humorists.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)