A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. — Rachel Field
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. — Jayne Anne Phillips
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. — Neil Gaiman
The town was paper, but the memories were not. — John Green
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town — Taylor Swift
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert V. Prochnow
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert Prochnow
Tears fall in my heart
As tears fall on the town. — Paul Verlaine
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. — O. Henry
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. — Margaret Mead
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. — Stephen King
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan
The village is coming back, like it or not. — David Brin
Short Town Quotes
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town. — John Mulaney
Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex — Wiz Khalifa
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people. — Genghis Khan
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town — Anne Lamott
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. — Stanley Kubrick
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green
Town Image Quotes
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. — Calamity Jane
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! — Humphrey Bogart
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town. — Sadie Frost
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.
Hometown Quotes
There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown. — Joseph Dougherty
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. — Alexandra Lara
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind. — Clementine Paddleford
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. — Gertrude Stein
One day the painting will be a centerpiece of my museum in my hometown Chiba, but before then I wish to loan this piece – which has been unseen by the public for more than 30 years – to institutions and exhibitions around the world. — Yusaku Maezawa
When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me. — Rod Serling
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order. — Mike Huckabee
Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy. — Eric Davis
Paper Town Quotes
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. — John Green
I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants. — Clark Gable
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green
Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers. — James Brolin
You will go to the paper towns and never come back. — John Green
This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns — John Green
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. — John Green
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. — John Green
Small Town Quotes
Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta. — Herschel Walker
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. — Quentin Tarantino
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie. — Joe Dante
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. — Roald Dahl
I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids. — Alison Moyet
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. — Richard M. Nixon
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. — Aaron Paul
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women. — Ann Richards
Our Town Quotes
God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country. — Jacob Zuma
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! — Joseph Stalin
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. — Boris Yeltsin
In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas. — James David Vance
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens. — John Hancock
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. — James David Vance
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. — Patrick MacGill
The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made
may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner
forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep
us locked in inner conflict. — Christopher Alexander
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. — Thomas Malthus
Pistol Pete Maravich lived and died in our town. So, two good shooters. — Theo Von
Old Town Quotes
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. — Mary MacLane
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather
I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now." — Johnny Carson
There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels. — Edward Lear
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you were old or young, man or woman, in a village or a town, it didn't matter. — Thabo Mbeki
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. — O. Henry
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. — O. Henry Porter
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. — Robert Benton
This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters. — Pete Wentz
Small Town Life Quotes
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. — Paul Ryan
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. — Frederick Reines
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. — Bob Taft
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. — Anna Nicole Smith
I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way. — Jack Nicholson
We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all. — Laura E. Richards
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town. — Lesley Gore
Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A. — Justin Moore
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. — Nicholas Sparks
Ghost Town Quotes
Chernobyl is a unique place on the planet, where nature revives after a world-wide man-made disaster, where there is a real 'ghost town.' — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define BETTER with that guy." "Not all fangs and raaaaar. — Rachel Caine
Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity. — Rachel Caine
Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps. — Rachel Caine
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it! — Rachel Caine
Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking. — Rachel Caine
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria. — Angelina Jolie
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed. — Barry Hannah
What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters. — Tea Leoni
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything. — Homer
Living In A Small Town Quotes
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. — James Cameron
Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure. — Jo-Ann Mapson
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. — Immanuel Kant
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color. — Harvey Milk
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere. — Alan Jackson
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives. — Bill Condon
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody. — Warren Christopher
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. — Frances Mayes
I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that. — Carlos Dengler
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish. — Jamie Bell
Cape Town Quotes
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma
The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations. — Reinhard Bonnke
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. — William Bligh
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses. — Wilbur Smith
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. — Doris Lessing
And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture. — K. Sello Duiker
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. — Rory Bremner
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' — Maya Angelou
I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing. — Lewis Pugh
The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend. — Alex Jones
We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready! — Gerard Way
God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it. — Marcus Garvey
I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source]. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. — James Weldon Johnson
Home is home wherever you grow up generally speaking. Unless you're one of those people who always wants to get out of a small town and do something bigger with your life, which I always did but I always wanted to come back, so home is home and its a great place for me to come back and escape the hustle and bustle of the life that I live. — Seth Rollins
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school — John Amos Comenius
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. — Jonathan Carroll
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. — Felix Mendelssohn
I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class. — James David Vance
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. — Bill Pullman
Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style. — Christian Siriano
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people. — Fannie Flagg
Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs, -
To the silent wilderness,
Where the soul need not repress
Its music. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read — Johnny Cash
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. — Nicola Sturgeon
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town. — Stanley Milgram
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. — Alison Moyet
It's been a while since I last played Factorio, but I can't stop thinking about it, and of the entire economy as being an MMORPG version of it. Factory Town, RimWorld, Banished, Dawn of Man etc are all great too but somehow pack less long-term punch. — Andrej Karpathy
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