Small Town Quotes - Page 15

• I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Family, Mean, Achievement

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• I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories live. And those stories have been informing my days, comforting my nights, and extending possibilities ever since. If that library had not been there, if the books - such as they were - had not been free, my world would be poor, even today.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Book, Heart, Night

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• I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

  David Nail

  Journey, Singing, Towns

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• I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

  George Clooney

  Motorcycle, Towns, Stopping

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

  Chaim Potok

  Family, Growing Up, Reading

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• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, War, Fighting

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• Small towns harbor small imaginations.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Towns, Harbors

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

  William Styron

  Sea, Quality, Vineyards

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.631, Random House

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• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Inspirational, Baseball, Heart

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

  Don Roff

  Talking, People, Towns

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