Quotes About Country Life Vs. City Life

#1. You're Romeo and I'm Juliet. If we get together, bad things will happen.

Priscilla West

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Lori Lansens

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

David Duval

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.

James Schannep

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

Stephen King

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Of course I do. I love you touching me, Ana. I'm like a starving man at a banquet when it comes to your touch.

E.L. James

#19. 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

#20. Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Wayne Rogers

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Mason Cooley

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Immanuel Kant

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

Jackie Cooper

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

Melina Marchetta

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I was worried that we'd broken you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. 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