Top 41 Quotes About City Life Versus Country Life

#1. I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.

Dana Burnet

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#2. It could take few drops of cooking oil to change your life, your neibourghs,your community, your village, your city, your county or your entire country.

Euginia Herlihy

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#3. New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.

Charles Emmerson

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#4. He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip. "You're my girl, Aimee. No one else.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

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#5. City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

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#6. By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you.

Brittany Comeaux

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#7. Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Rosa Luxemburg

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#8. I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Beverly Cleary

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#9. For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it.

Taylor Adams

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#10. City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Edward Hoagland

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#11. I held her as the rain beat down on the car.
I held her tighter as it got worse.
I let go of her when it cleared.
And then I drove her home.
All while not saying a Goddamn word - because really - what was there left to say?
She said she couldn't be with me.

Jay McLean

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#12. What is a big city girl like you doing out in the middle of nowhere with a country boy like me on a Tuesday night in October?"
"Enjoying life...

Lee DeBourg

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#13. Some people think they have to marry someone just like themselves. Well, if you want to do that, it's ok. It might be more interesting though if you marry someone who is not just like you. Hmmmmmmm.

Art Hochberg

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#14. The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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#15. There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

Rose Wilder Lane

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#16. There was a kid that had five brothers and sisters, and the family was missing for like five days. I was watching TV, they [found each other] and now they're in San Antonio. So I bought them a little apartment in San Antonio. But I'm doing stuff like that all over.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#17. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Melina Marchetta

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#18. [ ... ] the struggle of our lives was not a sign that there was still life. If you stopped struggling, that's when you needed to be worried. The fight meant that God was helping you keep going one more day even if you didn't thik you coould make it.

Chris Fabry

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#19. HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Alice Walker

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#20. Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

Dorothy Deming

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#21. Christ can forgive you," he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.
"That's grand," she said.
Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face.

Stephen M. Irwin

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#22. In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

Elizabeth Goudge

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#23. It was five o'clock when the stupid rooster started crowing relentlessly, robbing me of my sleep. The sun hadn't even risen yet. Dumbass bird should be on Prozac.

Alison Bliss

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#24. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

Anne Lamott

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#25. Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

Martin Luther

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#26. I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

Michael Bloomberg

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#27. I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

Dani Shapiro

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#28. You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Lee Iacocca

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#29. Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.

Nydia Velazquez

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#30. The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

Lori Lansens

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#31. Opportunities are everywhere. The question is who is going to take advantage of them.

Ehab Atalla

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#32. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.

Helen Keller

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#33. You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

Terry Bradshaw

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#34. In the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

Mabel Osgood Wright

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#35. This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his world: a being without context, whose past had faded, whose future was bleak, an entity stripped of name, of meaning,of the whole of life except a temporarily beating heart.

Salman Rushdie

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#36. People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.

Eric Burdon

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#37. City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

Stephen King

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#38. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford

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#39. In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

Christos Tsiolkas

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#40. Basil would never go for this - me chasing after an accused murderer in the darkness. He says there's nothing wrong with me, but it's entirely possible he hasn't been paying enough attention.

Lauren DeStefano

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#41. I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.

Valerie Parv

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