Rural Quotes · Page 6

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

— Laura van den Berg

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

— Ann Bancroft

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people…

— Chinua Achebe

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

— Berkeley Breathed

For too long, rural America has not been prioritized for modernization projects at VA facilities.

— Ronny Jackson

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

— Sxip Shirey

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

— Portia Simpson-Miller

“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself…

— James Hogg

What I saw growing up in rural Ohio was simple but powerful, and it characterized communities throughout our country, too: People worked…

— Jon Husted

The next level of mass consumption - and India is known for its consumption story - is really going to come from…

— Ronnie Screwvala

There's a tremendous amount of rural areas where the constituencies tell me on a regular basis that they are underserved by the…

— Chuck Fleischmann

When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of…

— Chrystia Freeland

Inkaba' is about a feud between two South African families. They have been fighting for years, from one generation to the next.…

— John Kani

If Congress allows the USPS to collapse and private companies take over the mail business, we can expect what we have seen…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Tapping into the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and work ethic of people in Western North Carolina through rural broadband will benefit not just NC-11…

— Madison Cawthorn

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than…

— William Sanderson

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

— Michael Ignatieff

Hazardous weather poses unique challenges for rural communities like many throughout our state.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

— Diego Klattenhoff

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

— Ananya Birla

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

— Tom Vilsack

I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

— Joe Gilgun

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

— Ban Ki-moon

If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and…

— Colin Cowherd

I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need…

— Tom Perez

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

— Marco Rubio

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

— Erik Hersman

In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

— Gary Locke

“Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.”

— Sara Marie Hogg

My father grew up in a Norman Rockwell postcard. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, his father was a rural mailman, they…

— Alex Wagner

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I think protecting rural England is more important than any work I do as an actress.

— Prunella Scales

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

— Antony Gormley

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

— Alexander Gilkes

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

— Tom Vilsack

Kids growing up in communities with rural hospitals see firsthand the types of jobs a STEAM education can provide.

— Ralph Northam

Our rural families and communities depend on the medical services and potentially life-saving treatments that local hospitals provide.

— Katie Britt

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

— Danny K. Davis

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I always said that to get India stronger, first strengthen its roots, and all our roots are our country's interiors, rural areas,…

— Raveena Tandon