Little Towns Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lee Majors

  Virginia, Borders, Tennessee

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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 own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

  Davy Jones

  Pennsylvania, Littles, Towns

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• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  Salma Hayek

  Listening, Mexico, Records

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.

  Joanna Newsom

  Teacher, Years, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Men, Cities, Littles

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.378, Modern Library

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• I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.

  Robert Pattinson

  Idaho, People, Three

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Growing Up, Holiday

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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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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• At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Sunset, Littles, Towns

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.25

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• There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Gossip, Littles, Towns

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• I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Flames, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.341, Penguin

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