Quotes About Rural

His hands were freezing, but he couldn't milk with gloves. Sorry about the cold hands, old girl, he apologized to the cow before he started.

I'M SCARED I'LL SHOOT MY NEIGHBOR BY ACCIDENT IF I SEE HIM TROTTING DOWN THE ROAD, SAID A FARMER IN KANSAS, WHAT IF HE GETS AFTER MY CHICKENS?

I have delivered lambs, calves and foals on our farms over the years.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

If you've never been to Michigan, everyone thinks it's completely rural. It's a destination state. You don't really drive through; you're going there for a reason.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.

Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;

They are simple folk. Like beasts in a field, they are fascinated when a peacock lives amongst them.

The real Doctor Fitzpiers was a man of too many hobbies to show likelihood of rising to any great eminence in the profession he had chosen, or even to acquire any wide practice in the rural district he had marked out as his field of survey for the present.

Thus Casterbridge was in most respects but the pole, focus, or nerve-knot of the surrounding country life; differing from the many manufacturing towns which are as foreign bodies set down, like boulders on a plain, in a green world with which they have nothing in common.

Crawford saw that in this place Starling was heir to the granny women, to the wise women, the herb healers, the stalwart country women who have always done the needful, who keep the watch and, when the watch is over, wash and dress the country dead.

I don't own big hats, but I have a lot of cattle.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Many people are just waking to the reality that unlimited expansion, what we call progress, is not possible in this world, and maybe looking to monks (who seek to live within limitations) as well as rural Dakotans (whose limitations are forced upon them by isolation and a harsh climate) can teach us how to live more realistically. These unlikely people might also help us overcome the pathological fear of death and the inability to deal with sickness and old age that plague American society.