Quotes About Rural

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

It's Cletus. I've got a good one for you." "Hey Cletus. You shoot another poacher?" "Nope. Didn't shoot anyone," Cletus assured her. "Yet.

Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.

Beyond the edge of town, past tar-covered poor houses and a low hill bare except for fallen electric poles, was the institution and it sent its delicate and isolated buildings trembling over the gravel and cinder floor of the valley.

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

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck

If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

A typical carbon map, such as that produced in 2002 by the Vulcan Project at Purdue University, sends a very clear signal: countryside good, cities bad. For a long time, these were the only maps of this type, and there is certainly a logic in looking at pollution from a location-by-location perspective. But this logic was based on an unconsidered assumption, which is that the most meaningful way to measure carbon is by the square mile. It isn't. The best way to measure carbon is per person.

virtually all southern rural music shows signs of Afro-European interchange.

A specifically rural-sounding blues style did not reach a mass audience until 1926, with the first recordings of a blind Texas street singer named Lemon Jefferson.

The one small room the house contained was scoured as a seashell. There was a table, a chest, a bedstead with a faded quilt, a spinning wheel, and a small loom. A few ancient kettles hung about the clean-swept hearth. From a square of sunlight on the floor an enormous yellow cat opened one eye to look at them.

Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.

Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods.

Bucolic peace is not my ambience

see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatchUpon the lonely moated grange.

When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the power of speech. I would return to London bereft of all vocabulary, communicating in grunts and diddums talk. You feel a fool asking, for instance, Professor Sir Alfred Ayer if he would care for an icky bitty more soup in his ickle bowl.

the hilly wilds of Cork and Kerry…That was as far

Jeremiah had said Dead End was like New York, but with fewer naked cowboys. I'd responded that New York was like Dead End, but with fewer gator wranglers.

This whole business of calling farmers all kinds of cheap names, such as Khalistanis, Urban Naxalites, was resorted to by BJP to weaken and damage the farmers' battle against the farm laws.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.