Quotes About Rural

I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

I grew up with a brother racing dirt bikes and me riding my pony around, trying to see what the boys were up to.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.

I saw firsthand the impact of women's efforts inside and outside the home from watching my wonderful mother, Nancy. A nurse who trained at Hopkins, she balanced the demands of raising our family with her work at our rural hospital on the Eastern Shore.

My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.

The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn't start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family's farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.

Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of this state.

I used to go to a dude ranch which is when you spend your holiday on a ranch so I became a bit of a cowboy.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

I have all sorts of country clothing because we live in Northumberland as well as London. You need good quality gear.