Quotes About Rural

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

I just love country. It just felt like that's the place to go and live life.

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

I did it all, man. My father worked with planting, leasing the land and planting corn and beans, things like that. My brother and I helped to harvest. At the time of planting, we would go along too. I think that made me become the woman I am today, strong and focused.

I used to see movies where they'd put on a play in a barn, but I've never played one.

My playground is full of moonshine, mason jars, beer bottles, and bonfires.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

I grew up on a farm playing backyard footie in my bare feet.

I've got two pigs, which doesn't constitute a farm. I just keep them in a field. They are very pleasant.

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor... If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can't expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.

There are different pockets of the rural U.S. and each one of those has their own colour, their own language, the things they're worried about. They're so different.

Driving around the back roads and doing a donut around a cone, that was my life growing up.

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

My house is surrounded on three sides by cornfields.