Rural Quotes

280 Rural quotes by 240 unique authors

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. — Greg Mortenson
I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state… — Peter Welch
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love… — Penelope Keith
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about… — Alden Nowlan
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor — H. L. Mencken
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access… — Judith Anderson
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of… — Ibn Khaldun
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. — Dick Armey
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who… — David Frum
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just… — Linwood Barclay
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy… — Jim Clyburn
Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics… — Arne Duncan
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a… — Karin Fossum
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack… — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts. — Steve Kazee
I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We… — John Hickenlooper
We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet… — Eli Pariser
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in… — Julie Salamon
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart… — Y. C. James Yen
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community… — Charles Rangel
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside… — Jamie Bell
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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