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I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up. — Mo Yan

Injustice is plaguing the countryside! And I think pie may be the only answer. — Marcia Lynn McClure

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside. — Cate Blanchett

Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart. — Mark Haddon

The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head. — Kate Winslet

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind. — Jenny Nimmo

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. — Nathan Glazer

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens ... We roamed the countryside. — William Moseley

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight — Abby Clements

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. — Cornelia Funke

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. — James Nesbitt

I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon. — Emily Bronte

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it. — Juan Pablo Galavis

I wish people would take more care of the countryside. — Kevin Whately

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside. — Donald Trump

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines. — Sarah Sutton

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. — Kiri Te Kanawa

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it. — David LaChapelle

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand. — Alice Temperley

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. — Luke Evans

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. — Srikumar Rao

I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath. — George Monbiot

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams

The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure. — Fennel Hudson

Is then no nook of English ground secure
From rash assault? — William Wordsworth

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot. — Gong Li

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. — Nick Love

Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside. — Helen Macdonald

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people. — Adolf Hitler

It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home. — John Boyne

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It came out sparkling like liquid sky. — Laurie Lee

[Olga's dreams of happiness:] Get married, always live in the countryside winter and summer, see only good people, no one official. — Helen Azar

Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears. — Evan Osnos

Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries. — Vicki Archer

In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan — Ignazio Silone

The countryside they — Karl Schroeder

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith. — Abby Clements

Hurt can make you blind to the truth — Abby Clements

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter. — Candace Bushnell

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. — Kenneth Branagh

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. — Charles C. Mann

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not. — John Marsden

It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside. — Emile Zola

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. — Sharon Kay Penman

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I love long power walks in the countryside. — Alice Temperley

I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises. — Jasmine Guinness

You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters. — Abby Clements

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside. — Fennel Hudson

So fell Lord Perth," murmured Roland. "And the countryside did shake with that thunder," Jake finished. — Stephen King

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life. — Donald Hall

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. — E. M. Forster

But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart. — Abby Clements

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home. — Natalie Dormer

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life. — Debra Messing

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot ... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. — Gwendoline Christie

We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become. — Fennel Hudson

So fell Lord Perth," he said, "and the countryside did shake with that thunder. — Stephen King

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! — Rupert Friend

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside. — Alan Gibbons

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. — Bella Freud

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen. — James Norton

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward") — Edith Wharton

I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills. — Tawni O'Dell

For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside. — Jeremy Irvine

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. — Honeysuckle Weeks

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green. — Emilia Clarke

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside. — Marion Cotillard

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure. — Jim Crace

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside. — Lily Collins

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it — Simon Jenkins

The building he took her to was an abandoned foundry out in the countryside and rain leaked in everywhere. — Donald Wells

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside. — Wendell Berry

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know. — Mark Billingham

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. — Lily Collins

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. — Virgil

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well. — Michelle Franklin

Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways. — Jenny Holzer

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle. — Gary Hume

I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. — Jessica Raine

Have you forgotten to have a beautiful breakfast in a countryside village? Then, you have forgotten the life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine. — Khaled Hosseini

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. — George Bernard Shaw

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside. — Ross Kemp

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside. — Miranda Kerr

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England. — Hugh Grant

And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom
to direct their impotent rage. — Patrick Suskind

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside. — Paulo Coelho

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. — Abbas Kiarostami