“We move, all of us, in sprung rhythm: for our world – whether we conceive it as broad or as cosy –… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“about 900 million people live in the countryside, where more than half the peasants survive on about US$0.73 per day. Incomes there… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
“Eleanor was all apologies, but Sarah enjoyed seeing a bit more of the Czech countryside. You probably couldn't say that you had… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they… — Ian Cawsey Copy Share Image
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“You come from the heart of nature, but then you put houses, cars, computers, etc., between yourself and nature. Why are you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals,… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I'm terribly taken by the countryside, so I love things like shadows cast by deep woods. I love the autumn. I love… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
