Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I grew up and raised my family in Nash County in rural Eastern North Carolina. Small towns and rural communities like mine… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and… — Christine Milne Copy Share Image
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time… — Lael Brainard Copy Share Image
Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cities in Florida, there are many areas that are suburban, many areas that are rural, you know, many… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a story about women who live in the rural part of America - what their lives were like,… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote… — Kit Bond Copy Share Image
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built.… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The historic sea changes that have taken place in our country's rural areas are clear proof of the validity and vitality of… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Divides between north and south, towns and cities, between urban and rural areas, cause people to experience a gulf in quality of… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty small town in a rural area in southwestern Saskatchewan, close to the Montana border. You either… — Colter Wall Copy Share Image
What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have… — David Shulkin Copy Share Image
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We go into rural communities, and all we do - like has been done in this room [at TED] - is create… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Khaosai, Somluck, Paveena, and Mum all came from the rural northeast. Religion, song, sport, and comedy broadened the class range of the… — Chris Baker Copy Share Image
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and… — Geoff Capes Copy Share Image
Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road… — Jitin Prasada Copy Share Image
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
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