Countryside Quotes - Page 6

• I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.

  Danielle Dutton

  Wall, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.

  Huey Newton

  Country, Government, Months

  Source: www.afro.com

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• Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Cities, Long

  "Paulo Coelho: Author of The Alchemist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  People, Appreciate, Sides

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beautiful, Country, Tree

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Games, Parent

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• The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  People, Way, Different

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

  Jane Jacobs

  Nature, Ideas, Champion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.445, Vintage

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• At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Careers, Two, Acting

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• Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

  Jessica Raine

  Birth, Birth And Death

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• For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Illustration, Cities

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

  Vince Vaughn

  Beautiful, Art, Rallying Cry

  Source: collider.com

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• It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.

  Rick Rowley

  War, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

  R. W. Apple

  Country, Dog, Horse

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• I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

  Joan Smalls

  Basketball, Running, Volleyball

  "VIDEO: How to Work Out Like Joan Smalls". Interview, www.elle.com. September 16, 2014.

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• The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

  Simon Jenkins

  Sacrifice, Government, Wind

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• [Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.

  James L. Jones

  Morning, Cycling, Mind

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• The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fun

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

  Janne Teller

  Europe, Tradition, Construction

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• We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Two, Parent

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• I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

  Juno Temple

  Crazy, Phones, Light

  "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.

  Simon Jenkins

  Government, Wind, Appreciate

  "Ecotowns and turbines are a political slap in the face of the landscape" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

  Graham Chapman

  Special, Warfare, Lasts

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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