Quotes About Rural

I was more than happy to not wear shoes. The only time we wore shoes was on Sunday when we went to church.

I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.

When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses for

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.

Mom was furious at the way people abandoned their pets in the country—"As if animals aren't human, too.

You would see me there now, cultivating the earth and carrying firewood on my back up the hills to my home, where I would light a fire and cook the evening meal. I would not tell stories, because they have been replaced by books, the radio, and television

The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.

the gentle melancholia that afflicts country people when the warm weather is ending.

A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very

What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves.

I said, "There's ditches his size, too.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Krava je usamljena životinja

A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

America has become accustomed to a permanent state of war. Only a small slice of society—including many poor and rural teenagers—fight and die, while a permanent national security elite rotates among senior government posts, contracting companies, think tanks, and television commentary, opportunities that would disappear if America was suddenly at peace. To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the most dramatic demographic shifts of modern American history. By 1970 only 9.7 million people, or 4.8 percent of the overall population, worked on the land. The number of farms fell from 5.9 million at the close of World War II to 3 million twenty-five years later.

An elegant sufficiency, content,Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

After all, the poor boy's doing the best he can. Probably he grew up in the hill country, and never had no larnin'. I bet they had to throw him on his back to get shoes on him.

What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.