Quotes About Rural

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

We have people that live in rural remote communities. They live in Indigenous communities in Queensland up to the Torres Strait and we have an obligation, a duty as a federation to ensure that all of these communities, all of these families have access to health.

I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.

As I have long said, smart infrastructure investments are needed to repair America's roads and bridges, invest in rural broadband and clean energy systems, create good jobs, and secure our economic future.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

The only thing I hunt on my land is wild hogs and coyotes, because they cause so many problems.

I grew up fishing, but I'm actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

I grew up in Iowa, so I would go hunting. I took a hunter's safety course in eighth grade to get extra credit in school.

I started hunting at 5 years old.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

It's only when you drive out of London that you get the sense that most of this country is made up of countryside: wide-open fields and a sky uninterrupted by buildings.

Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain the approval of urban curators, so we assimilate ourselves to other, more sophisticated voices.