Rural Virginians know when they're getting a raw deal - when other parts of the state get attention and resources and folks… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe… — Glenn Thompson Copy Share Image
The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance,… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day.… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
John Candy gave me a Hard Rock Cafe jacket, which was awesome because I was really from a very rural, small town,… — Jean Louisa Kelly Copy Share Image
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called… — Ryan Holmes 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
“A lot of people find rural landscapes relaxing.” “Sure, until you start wondering what’s creeping behind those trees, or slithering along in… — J.D. Robb 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
Landowners, farmers and gamekeepers, though they comprise a small minority of the rural population, claim to speak for everyone, and dismiss those… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Keep dreaming, Irish,” she said dryly, though her breath was ragged. “I will, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll come… — Whitney K-E Copy Share Image
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