Hometown Quotes - Page 4

• I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

  Stacy Schiff

  Children, Library, World

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• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Questions And Answers, Stranger

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• Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Evil, Looks

  Dean R. Koontz (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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• Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Jesus, Nice

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• The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.

  Ben Nelson

  Hero, Names, Community

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• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Imagination, Bombay

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• Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

  Walt Disney

  Horse, Heart, America

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• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  Scott Carpenter

  Loyalty, Country, Lonely

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• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  Maddie Hasson

  North Carolina, Directors, Casting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.

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• When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Imagination, One Day

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• I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

  Patton Oswalt

  Thinking, Kind, Imagine

  "Patton Oswalt On Comedy, Change, And What Happens If You Never Leave Home". "Weekend Edition" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 18, 2011.

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• In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

  Drew Holcomb

  Growing Up, Mind, Kind

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• If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom, and all that stuff. There's this weird politeness that we have, as a society. You don't want to make it hard for anybody.

  John Krasinski

  Mom, School, College

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Swimming, Eight

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

  Gemma Arterton

  Sweet, Home, Supportive

  "Gemma Arterton Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus a CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.

  Dana Gould

  School, Past, People

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• Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Play, Alabama

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• I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.

  Scotty McCreery

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

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• I was just glad I've got an opponent, to be honest. This is my third opponent for this fight prep. [I'm over the moon] to be fighting in my hometown and I just didn't want that taken away. The fact that they've got me a new opponent, I'm not bothered who it is. I just focus on what I can control in my preparation and that's all I've got to worry about. My opponent changes but they're all great fighters in the UFC. Doesn't matter who you step in there with, it's going to be a tough fight.

  Richie Vaculik

  Workout, Taken, Fighting

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• That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Way, Likes

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• I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.

  Deshaun Watson

  Fun, Team, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

  Osman Baydemir

  Years, Names, Language

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• The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

  Natalia Vodianova

  People, Faces, Desperate

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• Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win.

  Mario Batali

  Dog, New York, Team

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• There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Chicago, Used

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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