Towns Quotes

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

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.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

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

I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

Every town has an Elm Street.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

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

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

School should be the best party in town.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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.

Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready