Best Rural Proverbs
280 Rural quotes by 240 unique authors
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We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a…
— David Foster Wallace
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Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I…
— Jim Butcher
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso…
— Douglas Coupland
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Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty…
— Scarlett Johansson
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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our…
— Bryan Stevenson
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I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
— Erik Hersman
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Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the…
— Leon Krier
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I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and…
— Amanda Donohoe
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Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early…
— Janine di Giovanni
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Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog…
— Justin Kirk
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I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
— Saina Nehwal
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books…
— Jon Katz
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Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep…
— Paul Theroux
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Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my…
— Ryan Holmes
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I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
— Jesmyn Ward
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One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who…
— Scott Stossel
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We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small…
— Ertharin Cousin
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Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf,…
— Gregg Harper
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I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
— Ann Kirkpatrick
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I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and…
— Michelle Grabner
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