Quotes About Country life

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

I like being in a country where when cows attack, word of it gets around. That's what I mean when I say Britain is cozy.

Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the country. For most of us, it's not about the rush, which fades with time, or the paycheck. We could earn more working for the railroad or a car dealership. I figure it's about the land.

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

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

The country life near Manchester I really love.

unscientific theories, e.g. big dogs were kept by people who lived in little houses and vice versa. Clients who said "spare no expense" never paid their bills, ever. When I asked my way in the Dales and was told "you can't miss it," I knew I'd soon be hopelessly lost.) I had begun to wonder if perhaps country folk, despite their closer contact with fundamental things, were perhaps more susceptible than city people.

The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

My dear boy, said Lord Henry, smiling, anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not, by any means, an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which men can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.

It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.

So soon? But I sup pose that is only to be expected. Lord Ramsay will want to see his estate." "Yes, Mrs. Hunt." Leo said. "I adore bucolic settings. One can never view too many sheep.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

He felt sorry for me. He wanted a plain country woman and that's what he married, and then he held it against me the rest of my life like I was supposed to change and surprise him somehow.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Anybody can be good in the country.