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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• This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Journey, Years

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• There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

  Frank O'Connor

  Drama, Men, One Day

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• Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation.

  T. H. Watkins

  Dream, Spiritual, Powerful

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• I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

  Dr. Seuss

  Summer, Ideas, Two

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• When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

  Mary MacLane

  Taken, Years, Vapid

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• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

  Richard McKenna

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Nice, Littles, Towns

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• For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

  Blake Crouch

  Dream, Halloween, Perfect

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• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

  Phillip Noyce

  People, Littles, Towns

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• My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

  George Hamilton

  Girl, Mother, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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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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• I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

  Davy Jones

  Pennsylvania, Littles, Towns

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• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lakes, Littles, Towns

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• I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

  Lee Majors

  Virginia, Borders, Tennessee

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• When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

  Norman Rockwell

  New York, Eye, Artist

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• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Block, Home, School

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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• Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

  Ricky Schroder

  Nashville, People, Interesting

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• I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Writing, Men

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  D. J. MacHale

  Reality, Saint, Looks

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• M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

  Victor Hugo

  Fate, Thinking, Mouths

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.695, BookCaps Study Guides

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Safety, Massachusetts

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• My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

  Paul Anka

  Towns, Ottawa, Littles

  "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.

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