Rural Culture Quotes

The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo was the most exhilarating spectacle in the round year.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

Finally, 'Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu' happened. The director had doubts if a city-bred, fair-looking boy would fit the role of a village kabbadi player.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

Generally, Iowans are Iowans no matter where you go. There are some different issues in Des Moines than in the real rural areas. But I haven't seen any real difference outside of just local issues.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

The first time I ever put on a cowboy hat for a video a lot of people on my team was like, 'Are you sure? You know, we don't want people we think we country.' I'm like, 'It's cute! I don't care what people think.'

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.