Rural Quotes

280 Rural quotes by 240 unique authors

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in… — Bill Mollison
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates… — Karl Marx
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just… — Roger Daltrey
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to… — Gordon Parks
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. — Jasmine Guinness
I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people,… — Albert E. Brumley
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from… — Li Keqiang
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York. — Elwyn Brooks White
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at… — Bill Vaughan
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and… — Jonathan Raban
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in… — Jenny Lawson
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a… — Paul Nurse
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas. — Collin Peterson
As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… — John Shelton Reed
In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese… — Bubba Sparxxx
In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn… — Bubba Sparxxx
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended… — Bubba Sparxxx
We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at… — John Salazar
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford
Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune… — Ken Salazar
Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States -… — Ken Salazar
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and… — Miles Teller
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made… — Chely Wright
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam

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