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Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities. -- Samuel Palmer
Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. -- David Simon
[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers. -- Collin Peterson
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. -- Bill Pullman
Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies. -- Jason Kenney
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. -- Dan Quayle
Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. -- Richard Pombo
[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems. -- Collin Peterson
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. -- Dionne Warwick
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. -- Tom Vilsack
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 connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you. -- Jitin Prasada
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them. -- Dionne Warwick
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. -- Dick Armey
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
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. -- Arthur Smith
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else. -- Patti Smith
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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 it have been Negroes. -- Alden Nowlan
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 exhilarating experience of open space. -- Susan Orlean
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative. -- Kent Conrad
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 sense and that anything was possible. -- Chely Wright
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. -- Alan Dundes
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 as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men. -- Janine di Giovanni
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 our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries. -- Jenny Lawson
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas. -- Juan Williams
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. -- Lech Walesa
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 been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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 Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar. -- Miles Teller
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories. -- Clyde Edgerton
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. -- Al Sharpton
Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America. -- Ken Salazar
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 the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. -- Rick Perry
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 Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today. -- Reba McEntire
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 each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space. -- Naveen Jain
What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious. -- Justin Timberlake
I like rural areas. -- Will Oldham
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. -- Florence Nightingale
Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. -- Albert Theodore Powers
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life. -- Mason Cooley
I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. -- Arfa Karim
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged -- Sharyn McCrumb
I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads. -- Meles Zenawi
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. -- Stephen Kinzer
Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched. -- John Gummer
Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas. -- Thomas E. Mann
We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities. -- Tucker Carlson
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural. -- Amber Heard
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. -- Ban Ki-moon
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline. -- Jasmine Guinness
I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural. -- John Green
The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different. -- Andy Ogle
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot! -- Leigh Hunt
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. -- Tom Vilsack
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. -- Li Keqiang
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. -- Jim Gibbons
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas. -- Collin C. Peterson
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas. -- Collin C. Peterson
Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas. -- Sylvia Poggioli
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. -- Anthony Trollope
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. -- Dave Barry
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades. -- Tom Vilsack
In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully. -- Honor Tracy
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. -- William Shakespeare
The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture. -- Collin Peterson
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts. -- Steve Kazee
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. -- Beilby Porteus
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. -- Tom Vilsack
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities -- Vince Cable
We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents. -- David Petraeus
When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. -- William Cowper
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. -- Dwight Yoakam
Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads. -- Carolyn Mackler
I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people. -- Josh Turner
Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress. -- Betty Hill
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York. -- E. B. White
Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success. -- Nathan Winograd
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' -- Berkeley Breathed
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor -- H. L. Mencken
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure. -- Ann Bancroft
I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about. -- Bubba Sparxxx
My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. -- Pedro Almodovar
I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas. -- Devra Davis
I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama. -- John Lewis
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. -- Anne Hull
I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South. -- Jesmyn Ward
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities. -- Marco Rubio
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one." -- Sxip Shirey
India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals -- Verghese Kurien
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -- Ron Wyden
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. -- John Sandford
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. -- Greg Mortenson
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. -- Sxip Shirey
I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China. -- Masiela Lusha
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed. -- Gary Locke
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America. -- Bernie Sanders
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities -- Chuck Grassley
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. -- Antony Gormley
I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life. -- Erik Hersman
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. -- Charles Lamb
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. -- Agnes Repplier
I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. -- Tucker Carlson
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
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. -- Peter Drucker
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
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female -- Nicholas D. Kristof
We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas. -- Keith Ellison
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty. -- Marty Natalegawa
Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security. -- Tom Udall

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