Little Towns Quotes

• Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

  George Sand

  Littles, Towns, Plague

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.121, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Age, Four

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Towns, Littles

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

  Willa Cather

  Hate, Wings, Touching

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Dog, Garden, Rocks

  Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Rivers, Water

  Hilaire Belloc (1962). “Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse”

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• If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are 27, there aren't that many where you walk in and say wow, people are excited about their faith. A lot of them, it's just what you do on Sunday at 10:00 or 11:00 and that's not true in other countries. In some other countries, it's still a very lively, vibrant experience.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Sunday, Thinking

  "Interview: Philip Yancey on U.S. Christianity, Faith That Matters". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. October 02, 2010.

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• In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Class, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

  Del Shannon

  Hurt, Fall, Flirting

  Song: Little Town Flirt

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• O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Stars, Lying

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  Damian McGinty

  Hollywood, Broadway, Littles

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

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• I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

  Franka Potente

  Country, Kings, Symbolism

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

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• This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

  Faith Popcorn

  Dream, Land, Names

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.48, BookBaby

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• I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

  Dick Gregory

  Block, Men, Eight

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If you went to all those little towns in America, JPMorgan was there in good times and bad times, and, in fact, helped a lot of people through the tough times. And we know that's when they need us the most.

  Jamie Dimon

  America, People, Tough Times

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

  John Newman

  Crazy, Everyday, Yorkshire

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

  Geena Davis

  Philosophy, Moving, Squares

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town of Troy, or visit Montgomery or Tuskegee, I would see the signs that said, "WHITE MEN - COLORED MEN," "WHITE WOMEN - COLORED WOMEN."And I would come home and say to my mother and father and my grandparents, "Why?" "Why this?" "Why that?" And they would just tell me, "That's just the way it is! Don't get in the way. Don't cause trouble."

  John Lewis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Littles, Towns

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I just came back from - with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town - 27,000 - have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they're still here. I'm not saying they're here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it's a big problem.

  Joe Arpaio

  Iowa, Mexico, Littles

  "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". Interview with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

  Joe Manganiello

  Two, Half, Littles

  "Joe Manganiello is ready for your Pee-wee Herman slash fic". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. March 23, 2016.

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• I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

  Kelly Reichardt

  Moving, Suvs, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

  Ralph Nader

  Texas, Littles, Towns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

  Kathleen Robertson

  Father, Sunday, Firsts

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

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• I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.

  Chris Tomlin

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 21, 2016

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