Quotes About Rural

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

La finestra, a províncies, substitueix els teatres i el passeig.

You shall have the old home still [adverb, not noun - although Jack was by no means out of sympathy with Stubbs' kind of farm produce].

He told me to set my watch back an hour, since the northern hill country will have no dealings with new-fangled daylight time schemes. As I did so it seemed to me that I was likewise turning the calendar back a century.

relapsing into a bovine, half-amiable normality like that of the other hill-dwellers.

I was glad that all the street-lights were turned off, as is often the custom on strongly moonlit nights in unprosperous rural regions.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

I don't consider myself at the kind of stature of somebody who can play five cities on a tour, and that's it. I go where I'm wanted, and I've always had the rural areas of the country. We've always gone there, since the Carolina Chocolate Drops. There's a fan base that's there, and if I can afford to do it, I do it.

What I'm trying to do as an Australian is to say to people, 'You've got to go back out to Australia,' because there are rural communities that really rely upon tourism to continue to go.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!

Well, I came from a small little town on the beach - Grayland, a town of about 1,000 people. I was the quarterback and a basketball player at Ocosta High School. It was a great community to grow up in.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.