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280 Rural quotes by 240 unique authors

NRTC is pleased with our preliminary agreement and we look forward to working with SES AMERICOM, as it develops the exciting, new IP-PRIME platform, ..… — Bob Phillips
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience… — Raymond Williams
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities — Vince Cable
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, ..… — Dave Heineman
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that… — Theodore Roosevelt
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere… — Wendell Berry
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living… — Newt Gingrich
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
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require… — Robin Hayes
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural. — Amber Heard
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the… — Jim Hightower
As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But… — Naveen Jain
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen… — Penn Jillette
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised… — James Earl Jones
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have… — Abdul Kalam
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
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. — Barbara Kingsolver
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing. — Barbara Kingsolver
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener… — Lillie Langtry
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet… — Wangari Maathai
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and… — Reba McEntire
I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting… — Judd Nelson
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the… — Susan Orlean
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along… — Rick Perry

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