Quotes About County

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

Isolated remnants of the county's bucolic past remained in blocks of older wood-frame houses stranded between acres of parking lots, strip malls, and big retail outlets. Its population was mixed in every way.

The eastern moiety of the county is more purely Conservative than the western; there is, or was, a taint of Peelism in the latter;

But to me Barset has been a real county, and its city a real city, and the spires and towers have been before my eyes, and the voices of the people are known to my ears, and the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps.

the Johnson County commissioners, who "talked very feelingly," he said. "They resent the many slurs cast upon their county by the cattle barons who are trying to drive the smaller stockmen off the range."10

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

I judged entertainers who worked county fairs at age 55 because they had to. Now I get it.

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

There was a lot of animosity on the County side, a lot of jealously.

He concluded, "I'm sure there will be lawyers all over this thing if the citizens of Frederick County decided they wanted to join (West Virginia).

It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north.

county rescue boat to recover the corpse. Normally, I would

It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was "nothing to do." An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else's loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend.

I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

I didn't have a good time with Lancashire in 2000. Probably I'd played too much cricket and should have taken a rest, but I went there when the offer came because I had always had an ambition to play the county game in England. And I was a bit jaded. And I didn't do myself justice. I want to put that right before I finish my career.

each other in Marin County in Larkspur, which is about ten miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Larkspur's eleven thousand residents

He's not from here, that's the thing, Cub said. Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?

Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of Lee County.

Hard to get lost on this island, the whole place smaller than back home in Blount County, Tennessee.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

Finally there was a thick, warm cloak with a red clasp shaped like a rose. Grimalkin must have had these made in the County and hidden them among her own possessions. I was still half asleep; the last thing I wanted

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'