In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand. — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and… — Paulo Coelho 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power,… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to… — Peter Fryer Copy Share Image
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
“On the one hand,moving large companies to the countryside may reduce the tax revenue of the city government. On the other hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
With 'Stones is His Pockets' you have effectively a bare stage with two actors and yet a whole world in rural Ireland… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people. — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly,… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
