Rural Quotes

280 Rural quotes by 240 unique authors

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree.… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road networks for better… — Jitin Prasada
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees… — Seth Shostak
When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites. — Virginia Postrel
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. — Ban Ki-moon
Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but… — Winona LaDuke
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading… — Vint Cerf
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. — Stephen Kinzer
It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would… — Scott Michael Foster
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the… — Seamus Heaney
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and… — Richard Engel
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural… — Lael Brainard
I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are… — Shaffi Mather
Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas. — Thomas E. Mann
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
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities. — Marco Rubio
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden
My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary… — Adam Rayner
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at… — Will Shetterly
We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra… — John Warner
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. — Bennie Thompson
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a… — William Falconer

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