Country Living Quotes

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Patricia Lovell up at the vicarage wants everything "vintage" themed this year. She wants it all 1950s Country Living style. You know the sort of thing: pastel bunting, flowers in jam jars and mismatched teacups.”
― Hannah Richell, The Peacock Summer

“Horses, boots and hats don't constitute country life, humility, simplicity and compassion do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“People from the country ought to be at the forefront of humankind's struggle for kindness and equality, and yet, the situation is quite the opposite.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Not making a decision is making a decision.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“We don't have plays and music and contact with sophisticated minds, and a round of social engagements. All we have are sun and wind and rain, and space in which to move and breathe. All we have are the forests, and the calm expanses of the lakes, and time to call our own. All we have are the hunting and fishing and the swimming, and each other.”
― Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods

“World is my Louisiana, I am its Mississippi.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sharp-nosed and thin-lipped, with dark eyes framed by black plastic eyeglasses, haircut and shave long overdue. He felt familiar. Then I realized I was remembering a man in a Walker Evans photograph taken during the Dust Bowl.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Margaret cleared her throat. 'Now, how long have you been baking?'

'For twelve years. Since I graduated from the CIA.'

'You learned to bake from the government?' She scowled.

'No, no, it’s a culinary school in New York.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Welcome to Guthrie.'

'What do you mean?' I asked.

'Where everybody knows everything but no one says a word.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“I spent the day stripping the purple out of my hair and redyeing it—Manic Panic Electric Tiger Lily. The jar promised it would glow under a black light, but somehow I didn’t think the grange hall was going to turn the lights off and get funky.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“You should always do what you can to make life sweeter.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“You asked me what I thought about our friendship.'

I nodded, wide-eyed.

'It makes me feel like I’m home.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said.

Henry took my hands in his and leaned toward me. 'That’s what I’m doing.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“It’s not what happens to you but how you respond to it that matters.”
― Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living