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Quotes About Rural

I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
~ Sam Heughan
I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.
~ Ree Drummond
For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
~ Stewart Butterfield
I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
~ Bruce Coville
I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
~ Brantley Gilbert
I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
~ Craig Sager
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
~ Kay Cannon
I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.
~ Krysten Ritter
When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
~ Mike Dean
I grew up in a small town.
~ Hope Jahren
I grew up in a really small town.
~ Mike Patton
I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.
~ Kalki Koechlin
I grew up on a plantation in Alabama in a small town outside of Montgomery.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.
~ KT Tunstall
I grew up in a small town in Iowa, town of about 500 people.
~ Kim Reynolds
I grew up in a small town, like most Canadians.
~ Carey Price
I grew up in a pretty small town in a rural area in southwestern Saskatchewan, close to the Montana border. You either work the oil rigs, or you farm, or you ranch.
~ Colter Wall
I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn't have much connection with the outside world and couldn't see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that's when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.
~ Glover Teixeira
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.
~ Giannis Antetokounmpo
I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
~ Nancy Pickard
I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.
~ Henry Paulson
When I was a young boy, I would wake to an empty, silent house. My parents would return home at lunchtime, bringing with them the mulchy smell of the farmyard.
~ John Whaite