Small Town Quotes - Page 12

• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

  Richard Turner

  Mean, Mirrors, Views

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• All my friends are so small town.

  John Mellencamp

  Friendship, Towns, My Friends

  Song: Small Town, Album: Scarecrow

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• There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Two, People

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• We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Spiritual, Country, Cities

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• I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

  Bill Pullman

  New York, Towns, Upstate New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  Kate Smith

  Home, Groups, Towns

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

  Randal Marlin

  Names, People, Towns

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press

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• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Texas, Curiosity, Odessa

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• As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.

  Jamie Bell

  Wall, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

  Francois Rabelais

  Cities, Towns, Renown

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• It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, New York, Real

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• San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, One Day, Would Be

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• The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Men

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• If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

  Ricky Gervais

  Reading, Towns, Bowie

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

  Ishmael Beah

  Soccer, Morning, School

  "Former Child Soldier Recalls Experiences in Sierra Leone". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2007.

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• People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Names, Ideas

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

  Randall Jarrell

  Book, Taken, Rome

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 299, 1969.

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• We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

  Jimmy Wales

  New York, Cities, Cheerful

  "Jimmy Wales: Digital Champion of Free Speech" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2014.

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• I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

  Jean Chretien

  Fighting, Years, Guy

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Self Esteem, College, Men

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• I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.

  Roy Oswalt

  Growing Up, School, College

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