Countryside Quotes - Page 4

• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Believe, Church, Tourists

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• A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms. But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that.

  Marissa Meyer

  Night, Air, Cities

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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, People, Forever

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• Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

  Jessica Mitford

  Summer, Growing Up, Spring

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books

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• I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

  Ibn Warraq

  Strong, Attitude, School

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

  George William Russell

  Country, Stupid, Men

  George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”

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• The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Emotional, Atmosphere

  "The detective's great tapestry" by John Cunningham, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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• In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.

  Gillian Anderson

  Dark, Past, Thinking

  "Straightheads - Gillian Anderson interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

  Jenny Holzer

  Optimistic, Numbers, Way

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Cities, Cherish, Living In The City

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

  Candace Bushnell

  Summer, Winter, House

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• I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

  Eoin Colfer

  Office, House, Lovely

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer" by Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

  Rupert Friend

  Middle Of Nowhere, England, Grew Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Healthy, Waste, Ruins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Children, Flower, Fall

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• These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

  James P. Cannon

  Country, Cities, Giving

  "What Socialist America Will Look Like". Lecture at the SWP’s Friday Night Forum in Los Angeles on January 23, 1953. The Militant, www.marxists.org. July 27, 1953.

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• The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, Red, Nine

  Speech at the Lushan Conference, July 23, 1959.

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• Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings.

  Confucius

  Powerful, Teaching, Views

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• I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

  Mo Yan

  Writing, Grew Up, Regions

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