Quotes About Rural

I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

Being from the countryside gave me a spine, and it's why I'm so accepting - I don't judge people for how they look or how they talk... I just accept everyone.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields.

Much of it is open weed farms still

It was incongruous at Coombargana. In a great city such things happen now and then, where people are too strained and hurried to pay much attention to the griefs of others, but in a small rural community like ours, led by wise and tolerant people such as my father and mother, staffed by good types culled and weeded out over the years, such secret, catastrophic griefs do not occur. Troubles at Coombargana had always been small troubles in my lifetime.

same smell of lavender and honeysuckle and oily wool. We're crutching

the war should be understood as a kind of backlash against globalization, heralded by rising tariffs and immigration restrictions in the decade before 1914, and welcomed most ardently by Europe's agrarian elites, whose position had been undermined for decades by the decline in agricultural prices and emigration of surplus rural labour to the New World.14

You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories. This is what people do in small towns? We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos.

It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

I was born in Mumbai and raised in Mangalore at my grandmother's home which had a farm with animals.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.