Town Quotes

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

All my friends are so small town.

There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

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

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

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

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'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

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