Rural Quotes

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

– Henry Mayhew

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

– John Lewis

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’

– Berkeley Breathed

The rural nature of our district relies heavily on the profitability of our family farms.

– Chris Gibson

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

– Amber Heard

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

– Ann Kirkpatrick

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

– Anne Hull

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

– Meles Zenawi

Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada’s rural communities.

– Jim Gibbons

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

– Marco Rubio

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

– Thomas E. Mann

I like rural areas.

– Will Oldham

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

– Stephen Kinzer