Best Countryside Quotations
159 Countryside quotes by 132 unique authors
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It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of…
— Anthony Trollope
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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
— Cornelia Funke
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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
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I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of…
— Claude Monet
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As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft…
— Neltje Blanchan
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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home,…
— Kinky Friedman
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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm…
— Ellie Goulding
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Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body…
— Ellie Goulding
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At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.
— Hugh Grant
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I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
— Marion Cotillard
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I…
— Rachel Cusk
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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 countryside.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
— E. M. Forster
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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of…
— Jim Hightower
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I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with…
— Jay Kay
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I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.
— Miranda Kerr
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in…
— Abbas Kiarostami
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small…
— Salman Rushdie
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and…
— Salman Rushdie
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They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they…
— John Sandford
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Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started…
— Robert Smith
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We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since…
— Lewis Thomas
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We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we…
— Ashley Jensen
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else.…
— Caitlin Moran
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In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and…
— Graham Chapman
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