Rural Quotes

I was born at home in rural Japan.

— Mazie Hirono

I like rural areas.

— Will Oldham

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

— John Lewis

Northern Wisconsin, where I'm from, is so ridiculously rural.

— Trixie Mattel

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

— Albert Theodore Powers

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

— Florence Nightingale

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

— John Green

“Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

— Arfa Karim

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

— Li Keqiang

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

— Collin Peterson

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than…

— Peggy Whitson

Midsomer Murders' is more about character and atmosphere. It portrays a kind of idealised rural England, just as the French like to…

— John Nettles

A stuffy Capitol Hill hearing room differs quite a bit from the wide open, rural landscape of Louisa County, Va.

— Abigail Spanberger

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

— Jasmine Guinness

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for…

— Hozier

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.

— Mark Lanegan

Fifty-four years ago, I was an 8-year-old boy living in rural Kentucky when the schools were desegregated. I walked into a white…

— Dwane Casey

Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to…

— Chrystia Freeland

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country.…

— Roger Daltrey

I know this is hard for people who live in rural communities, but if you can, walk to the store. You will…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

In rural North Carolina, you find strong people who are driven by purpose and committed to working together: neighbor helping neighbor. You…

— Roy Cooper

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a…

— Tom Vilsack

One can see the professionals and intellectuals talking to their rural brethren with an amused and condescending smile. They forget that but…

— Sanjay Gandhi

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and…

— Amanda Donohoe

For too long, Americans have been plagued by unwanted and unlawful robocalls. For too long, they've found unauthorized charges and changes to…

— Ajit Pai

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders…

— Tom Vilsack

“One of the things that you learn in a rural area like that is self-reliance,” he said. “People do everything themselves. That…

— Richard L. Brandt

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas…

— Jesmyn Ward

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.…

— Debra Granik

Even though my family wasn't necessarily super well off, I realized that, because I was in a place with a relatively great…

— Nia DaCosta

Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one.…

— Tom Vilsack

I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.

— Maggie Rogers

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

— Saina Nehwal

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

— Samuel Palmer

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

— Jacqueline Novogratz