Quotes About Rural

When was the last time anyone in these parts had been attacked by a bear or a mountain lion? It was possible, but not probable, right? Maybe it was something harmless. A deer or a stray cow. Or a really big rabbit.

A whole slew of them lived outside Immita on a big piece of trailer-dotted land everyone called Ducktown, and they were all cousins and brothers and aunts with one another so many times over that it was hard to tell who was exactly related and how. Growing up, I'd had six or so in school right around my grade, but I was a sophomore now, and only one was left. Either the rest had failed so many times I'd left them behind by middle school or they had plain dropped out. OMG

all these farm boys are asking her out. To go pick apples or something. How symbolic." "I'm sure the apples they're picking are apples. It's not symbol season.

As decisively as Lincoln left the rural life, he left the Baptist church as well. In New Salem he became widely known as an infidel. He rejected eternal damnation, innate sin, the divinity of Jesus, and the infallibility of the Bible.

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Todos dicen que es muy linda. Yo sospecho que será una beldad lugareña y algo rústica.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology.

The State Revolving Fund helps rural communities and water associations afford to make improvements to their water infrastructure to ensure Mississippians have access to clean and safe drinking water.

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.

The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Fair is in August.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?