Rural Quotes · Page 3

Many TV shows these days have rural flavor, but in terms of content, they are all family politics.

— Suhasini Mulay

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in…

— Jason Isbell

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of…

— John A. Hostetler

“Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.”

— Cristina García

To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.

— Naveen Patnaik

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was…

— Bill Bailey

I've always lived in rural areas, remote areas. It's very educational to kind of see how life is in the big city.

— Steven Rinella

“...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")”

— Edith Wharton

I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I…

— Diane Kruger

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to…

— Park Chan-wook

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or…

— Paul Theroux

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the…

— Henry Mayhew

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in…

— John M. McHugh

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the…

— Richard Engel

Rural communities and our nation's economy also stand to benefit from broadband expansion. Rural schools can expand the quantity and quality of…

— Abigail Spanberger

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I…

— John Shimkus

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.…

— Debra Granik

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas…

— Jesmyn Ward

Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have…

— Diego Klattenhoff

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't…

— Tom Vilsack

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in…

— Nicole Maines

Meeting the unique healthcare needs of the hardworking men and women who call rural Louisiana home can be challenging. It is important…

— John Bel Edwards

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those…

— Al Sharpton

“My wife, Rohini, visits a lot of government schools as part of her NGO reach-out. One of the questions she most likes…

— Nandan Nilkani

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the…

— William J. Clinton

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the…

— Giles Foden

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

— Shaun King

When someone with a rural accent says, I don't know much about politics, zip up your pockets.

— Donald Rumsfeld

A lack of reliable high-speed Internet access creates an opportunity divide between Central Virginia's rural communities and our suburban areas.

— Abigail Spanberger

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

— Frederick Lenz

There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn't put them in my videos.

— Li Ziqi

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

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

While dam-busting Democrats are focusing on destroying water storage projects, I'm busy working on real solutions that put rural communities first.

— Lauren Boebert

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

— Mike Schultz

My commitment to rural North Carolina is personal. I understand the opportunities and challenges our rural communities face.

— Roy Cooper

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in…

— Laura Moser

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios…

— Michelle Grabner

One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

— M. S. Swaminathan