J. K. Rowling Quotes

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in the woods. The war seemed like something in a faraway land that had nothing to do with us. We sang songs as we hiked up the hill, sometimes imitating the birds we heard. Except for the fact that the war was still going on, it was a perfect morning.

And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.

Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I like rural areas.

I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

You're gaining more than you're losing in a small town.

I live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your feet on the ground, basically.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.