Rural Setting Quotes

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

In Surojit's film, 'Pagol Hawar Bodol Din,' I am a villager. Victor Banerjee is also part of the film. The uniqueness of 'PHBD' is that the whole film is like a poem.

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

I do remember a time and I can quite easily imagine a time without - looking to a future without 'Emmerdale.'

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

There was no glam squad, whatsoever. There were no dressing rooms. There were no bathrooms. Let's start at our base level. We didn't have toilet paper. We went to the woods to use the bathroom.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

I would love to do a film of the heartland.

I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.