Small Town Quotes - Page 6

• I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Opposites, Southern

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• 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.

  Rachael Harris

  Ohio, Feelings, Towns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  Kate Bosworth

  Looks, Towns, Different

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• 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

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was always übersexual...I was always wearing the smallest clothes I could find. I would go to the mall like that — in a short, short skirt and a giant wedge heel. That's what you do when you're a teenage girl in a small town.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Teenage, Clothes

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• I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

  Sarah Palin

  Gun, People, Listening

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Real, Cities

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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Piano

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

  Patty Duke

  House, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Ideas, People, Towns

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “The Back Door of Midnight”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

  Mitch Albom

  Towns, Beats, Metronomes

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• I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

  Mira Nair

  Book, India, World

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

  Laura Miller

  Towns

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

  Justin Bieber

  Singing, Hobbies, Towns

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• I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

  Lou Barletta

  Towns, Defenders

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• And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.

  Sherman Alexie

  Girl, Dream, Fun

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• Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Business, Mean

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• Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Towns, Gym

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• 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

  Thinking, President, Towns

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• I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Responsibility, Community, Towns

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Dark, Night

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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