Rural Quotes

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. — S.J Perelman

I like rural areas. — Will Oldham

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. — Barbara Kingsolver

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale. — John Cornforth

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor — H.L. Mencken

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction — James Hogg

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. — Tom Vilsack

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' — Berkeley Breathed

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. — Bubba Sparxxx

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas. — Thomas E. Mann

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. — Meg Rosoff

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.' — Steve Kazee

God had promised He would never leave me nor forsake me. That held true on a city street, in a rural teacherage, or in a remote part of the North. — Janette Oke

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull

those living in rural areas have higher levels of stress and fewer resources to cope with stress. For example, — Larry Cohen

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed. — Gary Locke

I suppose he represented the worst of what rural life can do to a man: he was racist, uneducated, and badly in need of dental work. — Reif Larsen

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. — Florence Nightingale

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that. — John Gimlette

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals — Verghese Kurien

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress. — Betty Hill

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. — Bill Pullman

The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together. — Fritz Nordengren

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going. — Sara Marie Hogg

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. — Richard Pombo

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. — Charles Lamb

Life's a car ride ... Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads. — Carolyn Mackler

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. — Nicholas D. Kristof

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker

Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; — Thomas Hardy

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance. — Harlan Coben

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

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. — Ban Ki-moon

In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully. — Honor Tracy

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas. — Collin C. Peterson

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast. — John Irving

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful. — Fennel Hudson

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it. — Carolyn Chute

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. — Melina Marchetta

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It was a country life, a precious existence. — Fennel Hudson

The two divinest things the world has got - A lovely woman and a rural spot. — John Keats

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets. — Donald Rumsfeld

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged — Sharyn McCrumb

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. — Burt Shavitz

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life. — Mason Cooley

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

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact. — William R. Ferris

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan. — Susumu Tonegawa

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl. — Portia Simpson-Miller

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation. — Agatha Christie

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. — William Blake

Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. — Dan Quayle

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural. — John Green

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

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. — Stephen Kinzer

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama. — John Lewis

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different. — Andy Ogle

When a rural Greek is hospitalized, relatives are in constant attendance to keep a check on the doctor and the treatment he prescribes. — Francis Fukuyama

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities — Chuck Grassley

Things are different now. A book I read said three things changed rural America: the breakup of the family farm; — George Hodgman

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end. — Edward Abbey

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms. — Diego Klattenhoff

But I hope we don't burden Amy with the idea that living outside the city limits is an inherently pious act. That rural equals righteous.
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I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South. — Jesmyn Ward

Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow. — Kurt Vonnegut

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural. — Amber Heard

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too. — Saina Nehwal

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure. — Ann Bancroft

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. — Tom Vilsack

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. — Li Keqiang

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. — Jeanette Winterson

Never let it be said that rural locales took any shine away from this bitch. — Leta Blake

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

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. — Jim Gibbons

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. — Greg Mortenson

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. — Lillie Langtry

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town. — Rodney Atkins

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot! — Leigh Hunt

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads. — Meles Zenawi

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. — Pedro Almodovar

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. — Gordon Parks

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else. — Patti Smith

Hush now, 'tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago. — Jan Reid

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam