Country Living Quotes

… the idiocy of rural life

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.

I come from a one-by-three-mile town: Seaford.

As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine... I'm a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.

There's this whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you've ever looked at in your life.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

I'm just a simple country girl.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

I've got a great place, it's a country house.

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.