Hometown Quotes

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

I never wore high heels in my hometown.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

It's a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me.

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

you’ll find the buildings taller, thatthe halls are full of ghostsbut everything still here iswhat you remember most