Small Town Quotes - Page 7

• Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Towns, Gym

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

  Laura Miller

  Towns

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• Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  People, Interesting, Towns

  Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.139, Villard

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• Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Business, Mean

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• I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

  Lou Barletta

  Towns, Defenders

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• When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.

  Steve Martin

  Being Yourself, Distance, Party

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• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Friday, Running, Prayer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

  Blake Bailey

  Mother, Father, School

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• I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

  John Darnielle

  Cities In The World, Durham, Towns

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

  Jack White

  New York, Actors, Towns

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Black

  Under Milk Wood (1954)

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, Iowa

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• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Father, Grandparent

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• I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.

  Famke Janssen

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "Famke Janssen Talks HEMLOCK GROVE Season 2, What’s New For Olivia, Working in Genre, and More". Interview, collider.com. July 5, 2014.

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• City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

  William P. Young

  Country, Pain, Cities

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

  Laura Bush

  Character, Growing, Towns

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• Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Winning, Awards, Texas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

  Rod Serling

  Summer, Thinking, Disease

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, College, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, College, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

  Paul Rust

  Growing Up, Catholic, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

  David Burnett

  New York, Towns, Welcome

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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