I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at… — Wolfgang Puck 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
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided… — Feist Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy… — Ai Qing Copy Share Image
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“And then, as I watched the sheep peacefully nibbling the grass, it came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days,… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
“countryside of Laraford, five sisters and two young men were enjoying the last day of summer. On the far side of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“away.” “Yes, I am aware of that. I just moved here.” “But you don’t even like the countryside.” “Your father didn’t but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness.… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London.… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a… — Toby Kebbell Copy Share Image
“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most… — Elisabeth Beazley Copy Share Image
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
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