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Rural Quotes

Bill Pullman quote: "Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped..."
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. Bill Pullman
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 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. Thomas Vilsack
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
Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. Thomas Vilsack
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. Larry McMurtry
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. Thomas Vilsack
But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed. John Shimkus
For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development. Kit Bond
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
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. Alexander Pope
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural..."
Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow. Kurt Vonnegut
Charles Lamb quote: "Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural..."
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. Charles Lamb
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. Samuel Johnson
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile. Louis Aragon

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