Hometown Quotes - Page 7

• I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.

  David Ross

  Perspective, Wish, Retiring

  Source: espn.go.com

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• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

  Celestino Caballero

  Fighting, Fans, Crowds

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Two, Parent

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• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Ohio, Design

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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, California, Philadelphia

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• Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Boston, Fans

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• The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.

  Claudia Gray

  Couple, Years, People

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• For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

  Josh McDowell

  Bible, Jesus, Dad

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• Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, Impact, Climate

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• I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.

  Kellie Pickler

  Beach, Airplane, Idols

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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• Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

  Eric Burdon

  California, Britain

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• I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Bored, Childhood

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• If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

  Agnieszka Radwanska

  Country, Home, Feel Good

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• I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

  Joe Manganiello

  Home, Men, Roots

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• In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

  Chris Matthews

  Fun, Boys, Night

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Insulting

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• I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and moved to my hometown, Umeå. I took my time there, exploring music on my own, on a very personal level.

  Tove Styrke

  Needs, Levels, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Boys, Night

  Song: My Hometown, 1984

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• I never wore high heels in my hometown.

  Liu Wen

  High Heels, Heels

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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• I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

  Maud Adams

  People, Odd, Persons

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