Rural Quotes · Page 6

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real,…

— Dan Quayle

I grew up in a rural area. Books are what helped me transcend my circumstances.

— Charlamagne tha God

Its the sort of thing in your blood. You don't think about the long hours or the money, you do it because…

— Anonymous

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English…

— Meg Rosoff

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once.…

— Edward Abbey

I know firsthand how our being such a rural state presents challenges to healthcare.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

As rural people like to maintain a good name in society, they are more honest about repaying loans.

— Ananya Birla

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

— Hans Rosling

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure…

— Sam Trammell

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women…

— Joan Van Ark

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important…

— Vick Hope

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of…

— Don A Dillman

You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at…

— Mike Beebe

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He…

— Jon Pardi

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to…

— Shilpa Shetty

A bright future for the nation depends on the health and prosperity of rural America.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

I grew up in Maryland on the East Coast - you know, close to D.C. but sort of in the suburban, rural…

— Chris Carmack

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

— John Cornforth

We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

— William Shakespeare

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

— Jason Kenney

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

— Laura van den Berg

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

— Sxip Shirey

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

— Portia Simpson-Miller

“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself…

— James Hogg

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

— Ann Bancroft

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people…

— Chinua Achebe

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

— Berkeley Breathed

For too long, rural America has not been prioritized for modernization projects at VA facilities.

— Ronny Jackson

Our small airports and rail stations are hubs of commerce that connect rural New Mexico with markets across the United States and…

— Ben Ray Lujan

Whenever I leave home to film, my wife Marina gets terrified that I'm going to come back having bought a tiny plot…

— Ben Fogle

I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a…

— Bryan Stevenson

We are neither anti-urban nor pro-rural. We know there is a gap between urban and rural areas; we are only trying to…

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

— Josh Turner

New Mexico's rural counties must have their voices heard on the federal policies that impact their communities.

— Ben Ray Lujan

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

— Thomas E. Mann