Quotes of: Rural-areas Keyword

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

Paul Watson

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Emily Oster

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

David Baldacci

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Joe Barton

I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.

Gerry Schwartz

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

Chili Davis

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

William Labov

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Anthony Trollope

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Berkeley Breathed

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Patti Smith

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Li Keqiang

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

Antony Gormley

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

Bennie Thompson

I've seen men suffer like rural dogs and others prosper like gods.

Fort Free

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Ban Ki-moon

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Josh Turner

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Jesmyn Ward

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

Diego Klattenhoff

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Tom Vilsack

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

Joan Van Ark