Small Town Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

He was both her hero and enemy. She was his best student and biggest regret.

There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead.

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.

She had platonic all but tattooed on her forehead.

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

She moaned in playful disappointment. "You shouldn't have canceled. It would be fund to take a picture. You'll be laughing at this years from now.

I don't want to move out of bed." "I don't want to move out of bed either. Let's live here.

For ya, love, I will be anything ya want... even a potato.

He took her hand from her head and held it in his. "Your beauty could make a rose blush." "Are you... drunk?

Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.