Town Quotes

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

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

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

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

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

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.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.