Quotes About Rural

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

There is no rural life in a countryman's dream and there is no city life in a townsman's dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Desde que tenía memoria, William Stoner había tenido obligaciones. A los seis años ordeñaba las vacas macilentas, alimentaba a los cerdos en el chiquero que estaba a pocos metros de la casa y juntaba

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

These private wars were fought by the knights with furious gusto and a single strategy, which consisted in trying to ruin the enemy by killing or maiming as many of his peasants and destroying as many crops, vineyards, tools, barns, and other possessions as possible, thereby reducing his sources of revenue. As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.

As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.

I think a lot of people dont realize I come from a pretty rural area in a place where people are real westernized, and they love country music, because thats the kind of lives they lead.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

I'm kind of a closet redneck.

I did any of the normal things any redneck kid did.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

I live in the country, and I have a very happy life. I just do the job and go home.

In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.

I am committed to helping our farmers in any way that I can.

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

What a country and state we live in where a small-town girl from rural Iowa can become governor and have the opportunity to serve Iowans at the highest level.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

It was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air.

was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air.