James Lane Allen Quotes

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.

I spent much of my childhood on stations up north, loving that life and with many, many special memories, and so the country holds a very real place in my heart.

Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

I'm happy living in the countryside. We are 30 minutes away from Milan, so I can drive in for dinner and drive out. It's not a question of living in the country or in the city, it's really a question of living in a tight, close-knit clan that makes the difference.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

People from the country are very simple and loyal. I like that. I prefer to deal with the campesinos rather than the political people in Lima.

I grew up in a small town.

Am I happiest on the farm or out in the middle? I am a cricketer, but the farm is a very special place and I absolutely love being in the countryside and getting away from the bubble. I like to think I'm a farmer, but there's so much experience that goes into that.

I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.

I grew up in the countryside.