Small Town Quotes - Page 11

• Let's say you want to do a job, and you want to be really successful. You want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now, that's fine if that's what makes you happy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Moving, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Unique, Special

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the pro ball life style of being on the road alot and having a game almost every day but once I got use to it everything felt right.

  Graham Taylor

  Games, Interesting, Style

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• I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, America, Towns

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Dream, Kids, Games

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

  Ewan McGregor

  Beautiful, Scotland, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Games, Gas Stations, Mowing

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• Television is just amazing - how many people see it and how many people recognize you, and I think once you've had the opportunity and have been in front of the public, it's very flattering to have people come up and say hello to you. It's a tremendous industry. I've been in places where people come out of the woodwork. And you would never think - small towns in France or traveling through Europe - and there are so many of those people there that recognize you, and you've been in their homes. I find it to be a very flattering thing.

  Robert Wagner

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Robert Wagner Gets Into the Hustle". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 17, 2007.

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• 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

  Childhood, Way, Rest Of Your Life

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, People, Want

  "Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 27, 2010.

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• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Boredom, News, Towns

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

  Kristin Hannah

  Animal, Loner, Going Out

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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

  Bill Pullman

  New York, Towns, Upstate New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  Kate Smith

  Home, Groups, Towns

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• In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Visions Of The Future, Community, Citizens

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2010). “The Americans: The Democratic Experience”, p.427, Vintage

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• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

  Richard Turner

  Mean, Mirrors, Views

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• All my friends are so small town.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Towns, My Friends

  Song: Small Town, Album: Scarecrow

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• There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Two, People

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• We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Spiritual, Country, Cities

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• If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler

  Mistake, Stupid, Animal

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

  Stacy Schiff

  Girl, Book, Witch Trials

  "Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com.

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