The Small Quotes

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

Small things affects small minds.

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

Small things lead to big changes.

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.

We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

My biggest challenge is being in a small town and not being able to meet a lot of people.