Small Town Quotes

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.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a small-town girl.

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 do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

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

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

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.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.