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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. -- Mason Cooley
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees. -- Ziggy Marley
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. -- PJ Harvey
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. -- Horace
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. -- Giovanni Ruffini
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. -- Vita Sackville-West
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl. -- Agnes Repplier
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. -- John F. Kennedy
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. -- Laurie Lee
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other. -- William Penn
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days. -- Michael Haneke
The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is. -- Rose Wilder Lane
The country life near Manchester I really love. -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. -- PJ Harvey
It was a country life, a precious existence. -- Fennel Hudson
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. -- Alan Brien
The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.... -- Robert Frost
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill. -- Wallace Stevens
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life. -- Simon Pegg
English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. -- Jane Gardam
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. -- Jane Gardam
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability. -- Marshall McLuhan
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle. -- Kelsea Ballerini
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side. -- Emily Bronte
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy. -- William Habington
I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods. -- Flora Thompson
I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children. -- Godfrey Hounsfield
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant. -- Anton Chekhov
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days. -- Corra May Harris
How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known. -- John Dryden
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description. -- Ralph Ellison
All of life is a foreign country. -- Jack Kerouac
A country song is a song about life. -- Alan Jackson
In isolated or country places no man's life is safe. -- John White Geary
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life. -- Rafael Correa
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer. -- David Keith
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. -- Nick Lampson
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. -- Anthony Lewis
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. -- Dennis Miller
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. -- Garth Brooks
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. -- Nathan Hale
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. -- Texas Guinan
They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen. -- Morena Baccarin
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life. -- Faith Hill
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. -- Simon Newcomb
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. -- Conway Twitty
Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer. -- Kelly Clarkson
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country. -- Simon Schama
Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life. -- George Strait
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture. -- Walter Salles
I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country. -- James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. -- Laura Bell Bundy
I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country. -- Mary Decker
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life. -- Agnetha Faltskog
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life. -- Luke Bryan
The life of a citizen is the property of his country. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When it comes to the 'rhythm of life', make mine country. -- Mark Schwendau
This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music. -- Brad Paisley
Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death. -- John Major
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. -- Brad Paisley
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see. -- William Blake
You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it -- Evan Wright
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. -- Raymond Williams
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. -- Seneca the Younger
The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation -- Sunday Adelaja
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music. -- Conway Twitty
God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them. -- Edward Snowden
Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government -- John Prescott
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life. -- Georges Bizet
If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France. -- Pierre Salinger
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life? -- Cheon Eunbi
In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death. -- Betty MacDonald
Jennifer Morrison is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, in a foreign country. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country. -- Rashid Khalidi
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. -- James Joyce
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. -- Craig Venter
Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society. -- George W. Bush
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country. -- Ann Coulter
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. -- Swami Vivekananda
But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. -- Hugh Jackman
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. -- Erin Pizzey
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. -- Margaret Atwood
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? -- Patrick Stewart
These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton. -- Donald Trump
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. -- Bryan White
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life. -- Vladimir Putin
I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country. -- Jon Bernthal
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. -- Plautus
... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! -- Allan Rock
A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment -- Kofi Annan
When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy. -- Kenny Chesney
But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life. -- Kate Atkinson
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions. -- Dustin Lynch
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. -- Stephen King
America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both and I'll never forget those values. -- Barack Obama
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold. -- Paul Martin
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. -- Robert Casey
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. -- Wangari Maathai
A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for. -- William Beebe
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. -- Mona Charen
If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity. -- Sunday Adelaja
The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well. -- Jennifer A. Nielsen
The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan. -- Abdallah II
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her. -- Samuel Johnson
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back. -- Howard Hughes
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. -- Faith Hill

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