Quotes About Rural

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being honest storytellers.

If I'm in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can snap.

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

In a small town, residents don't wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.

He recommended that factories should 'as far as possible' be dispersed about the country instead of being concentrated in a few areas, both to avoid congestion, improve the earning power of the rural population and 'enlarge their horizon'.

Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity.

The only communications truly without influence are those that one learns to ignore or never hears at all; this is why Jacques Ellul argued that it is only the disconnected—rural dwellers or the urban poor—who are truly immune to propaganda, while intellectuals, who read everything, insist on having opinions, and think themselves immune to propaganda are, in fact, easy to manipulate.

lived in San Francisco since 2007. Instead, he bought a cabin in rural Truckee,

Through his honor I conquered him. For these peasants carry their honor in their hands so that they may constantly consult it; this same honor that once felt so much at home in the city but now has taken refuge in a more rural setting.

In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

Not many people know this but we come from a long line of chicken, pineapple and onion farmers at Ingham in Queensland.