Countryside Rural Life Quotes & Sayings

It is widely believed that Christianity remained an essentially urban cult and that the population of the countryside clung for generations to the old beliefs. The word 'pagan' comes from paganus, or someone who lived in the countryside (pagus). Unfortunately, we know so little about the religious life in rural areas that this remains conjectural. Paganus was usually derogatory - something like 'yokel' or 'hick' would give the right idea - and may just reflect the common belief of urban dwellers that countrymen were dull and backward. — Adrian Goldsworthy

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static. — Patrick Kavanagh

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis? — Paul Valery

Ask yourself, WHAT DO I WANT?" Ask yourself, how can I take a baby step towards my goal today? Have "a job" you don't like? Change your perspective from it being "a job" into a "stepping stone" to accomplish WHAT YOU WANT! It's no longer "a job" you do not enjoy. Now, you have TRANSFORMED "your job" into "a means to an end" that is SERVING YOU and WHAT YOU WANT! Allow everything you do both enjoyable and not so enjoyable to SERVE YOU for YOUR PURPOSE!
-Shay Dawkins — Shay Dawkins

We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become. — Fennel Hudson

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. — John Steinbeck

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward") — Edith Wharton

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family. — Arne Duncan

As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, The time for talking is over. — Brennan Manning

Why doubt thyself? Believe in your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Healthy Snacks Online India | Snalthy
Snalthy, healthy snack online the revolution had just begun, is an answer to those individuals who thought healthy snacks can never be tasty — Shilpi

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. — C.S. Lewis

The all-pervading disease of the modern world is the total imbalance between city and countryside, an imbalance in terms of wealth, power, culture, attraction and hope. The former has become over-extended and the latter has atrophied. The city has become the universal magnet, while rural life has lost its savour. Yet it remains an unalterable truth that, just as a sound mind depends on a sound body, so the health of the cities depends on the health of the rural areas. The cities, with all their wealth, are merely secondary producers, while primary production, the precondition of all economic life, takes place in the countryside. The prevailing lack of balance, based on the age-old exploitation of countryman and raw material producer, today threatens all countries throughout the world, the rich even more than the poor. To restore a proper balance between city and rural life is perhaps the greatest task in front of modern man. — Ernst F. Schumacher

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter. — Andre Benjamin

You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked. — Lorenzo Snow

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father. — Princess Diana

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist. — Pedro Almodovar

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them. — Michael Bloomberg