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Quotes About Rural

I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.
~ Tye Sheridan
I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.
~ George Eads
I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.
~ Mark Henry
I was a country boy from Texas and I love eating.
~ Larry Johnson
In the long term, expanding and modernizing I-27 through the Texas Panhandle will promote growth by connecting rural areas to the federal Interstate Highway system, strengthen avenues for trade which is particularly advantageous for TX-13's agriculture industry, increase safety, and save billions in travel costs.
~ Ronny Jackson
My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.
~ Charles Murray
There was a big barn and a darling little farmhouse at the end of a drive through the fields. As they got closer Maggie noticed the details. The windows were covered with tinfoil. The weather vane on top of the house had tinfoil streamers on it.
~ Robyn Carr
She'd obviously be more at home in a marble mansion with a pool. What the hell was she doing with that old Weatherby ranch house? That wouldn't last long. "Exotic chickens, my ass," Walt muttered to himself as he shut down the computer and headed for bed.
~ Robyn Carr
That wild-man look," Jack told Erin. "Not unusual around here. Lotta farmers, loggers and ranchers don't shave in winter. And they don't usually wear Sunday best to chop wood or feed sheep. Ian Buchanan fits right in, and seems like a civil man. I wouldn't worry." Marcie
~ Robyn Carr
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.
~ Rodney Atkins
I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter's supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.
~ Roman Payne
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
~ Ron Wyden
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
~ Ron Wyden
Eau de Better Than Manure," said Doris. "The farm girl's friend.
~ Louise Erdrich
Io son figlio del Caos; e non allegoricamente, ma in giusta realtà, perché son nato in una nostra campagna, che trovasi presso ad un intricato bosco denominato, in forma dialettale, Càvusu dagli abitanti di Girgenti, corruzione dialettale del genuino e antico vocabolo greco Kaos.
~ Luigi Pirandello
dello Sperone ch'era il miglior vigneto della nostra contrada
~ Luigi Pirandello
To hear Chip talk you'd think every Nebraskan male knows how to put a horseshoe on a mule. They know how to bring forth grain from dirt, or what a combine harvester is. They get what happens to that brought-forth grain, the steps before the Cheerios. The women knit long underwear and are adept at fruit canning.
~ Lydia Millet
Você ainda se lembra da roça, Tomás? – Alembra, sim, senhor.
~ Machado de Assis
University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto—although that, of course, didn't mean much, since Roseto
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12
~ January Jones
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.
~ Y. C. James Yen
Silently and sadly, the village lived its simple life.
~ Amos Oz
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
~ Andrew Britton
I told Jack I loved Body Heat. Because he's out here in the sticks and so he doesn't see anything. I said it was a real hot movie. He kept asking about the girl, Kathleen Turner, and I said that she'd never be remembered.
~ Andy Warhol