Quotes About Rural

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

De steeds weer terugkerende dagdroom in mijn jeugd was, vooral op wasdag, om rijk te worden en dan voor mijn moeder een lieflijk landelijk paradijs aan te schaffen waar onder het loverzwaar geboomte op het mollige gras tientallen jonge vrouwen in luchtige zomerjurkjes met kittige schortjes om de was voor haar deden in blinkend gegalvaniseerde wasteiltjes en op bijna schertsachtige wasbordjes die de allure hadden van rococo-harpjes.

3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.

The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.

For city people, time was fractured into finite segments like boxes on a conveyer belt. On the farm, time was continuous, like a string around a tree, one season flowing inevitably into the next. For

Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone. Our seeds are disappearing.

The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes.

Rusheen was theirs, the old faithful trees keeping watch and enough head of cattle to defray expenses for at least six months or so to come.

June, Nebraska

They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

I would have thought it was the sort of house a vampire lived in if I hadn't been aware that vampire stories were superstitious legends designed to subjugate the enslaved rural classes into unquestioning obedience of feudal autocracy.

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.

A farm bill in Washington State is a jobs bill.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

While dam-busting Democrats are focusing on destroying water storage projects, I'm busy working on real solutions that put rural communities first.

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.

I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.