Quotes About Rural

He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn't get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.

He was used to shotgun shacks with cracks you could have thrown a good-sized housecat through and floors through whose cracks a man could watch his chickens scratching for worms, if he was lucky enough to possess any chickens.

It ain't never far to a bootlegger

From the shade of the Ivy covered porch the old men sat in ladder back chairs and watched the hot blacktop. They'd sit day long and wait for something to happen, anything to happen, waiting for the road to entertain them. These were old man in clean shirts and suspenders and pants so roomy they could've held another old-timer and shoes split down the sides for comfort.

This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we overlabor; our outlook never really urban, never rural either, we enlarge and linger at the same time, as Alice both changed and remained in her story.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

When I lived in Madagascar, I found that rural people—who had little use for clocks—still often described distance the old-fashioned way and said that to walk to another village would take two cookings of a pot of rice. In medieval Europe, people spoke similarly of something as taking "three paternosters," or two boilings of an egg. This sort of thing is extremely common. In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Maybe, " he said in a slow, rural drawl, "you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy." "Well, " I said, "if you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it.

You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.