Rural Traditions Quotes

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.

You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

You might be a redneck if you celebrate Groundhog Day because you believe in it.

My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.

It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.

The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.

Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.

Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.