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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
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
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
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
— Ann Bancroft
Things are different now. A book I read said three things changed rural America: the breakup of the family farm;
— George Hodgman
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
— Chuck Grassley
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
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
The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.
— Andy Ogle
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
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
— John Sandford
My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
— Pedro Almodovar
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
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
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 decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
— Greg Mortenson
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.
— Jim Gibbons
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper
Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature. — William Cowper
Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.
— Jeanette Winterson
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.
— Li Keqiang
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
— Tom Vilsack
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
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
— Ban Ki-moon
It was a country life, a precious existence.
— Fennel Hudson
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
— Melina Marchetta
The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.
— Fennel Hudson
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
— William Shakespeare
Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.
— John Irving
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.
— Collin C. Peterson
In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.
— Honor Tracy
But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward")
— Edith Wharton
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
Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;
— Thomas Hardy
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
— Peter Drucker
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
Life's a car ride ... Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.
— Carolyn Mackler
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
— Charles Lamb
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
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.
— Sara Marie Hogg
I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
— John Lewis
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
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.
— Stephen Kinzer
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
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
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
Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.
— Agatha Christie
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
— Agnes Repplier
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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
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
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus
We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
— Fennel Hudson
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
— Mason Cooley