My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have… — Gong Li Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born.… — Astrid Berges-Frisbey Copy Share Image
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so… — John Ray Copy Share Image
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
In my early 20s, there was a period when all I owned was about a dozen CDs and a crappy Discman. I'd… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous 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
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
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
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment.… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to… — Bill Bryson 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
I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Well, my boyfriend's from California so it's kind of a bit of California countryside but closer to home. It just takes a… — Andy Bell 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
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
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
“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
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
As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
“And it occurred to him that a walk through the countryside was a sort of epitome of the passage through life itself.… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school, two miles, across… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
