Towns Quotes - Page 40

• Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dresses, England, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.13, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

  David McCullough

  Bridges, People, Helpful

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

  Laozi

  Country, Compassion, Taoism

  45 Copy quote

• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cinema, World, Evening

  "How Dino De Laurentiis Defied Moviemaking Convention" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

  Pete Fountain

  Taken, Kids, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

  Andrew Schneider

  Change, Two, People

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Cicely')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, May 18, 1992.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  Justin Sane

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Exercise, Drug, Twenties

  24 Copy quote

• It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

  Mary Wesley

  Moving, Sensible, Walks

  4 Copy quote

• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  Mary Wesley

  Respect, Children, Animal

  8 Copy quote

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

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  People, Interesting, Small Town

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

  Blythe Danner

  Rocks, Fans, Rock N Roll

  4 Copy quote

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Doors, Decision, Secret

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  79 Copy quote

• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Order, Turkeys, Ducks

  4 Copy quote

• In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

  Ken Harrelson

  Kings, Men, Blind

  7 Copy quote

• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

  7 Copy quote

• My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Lunch, Waiting

  Letter to Margaret Anderson, 1941.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

  Ransom Riggs

  Memories, Home, House

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.167, Quirk Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Wind

  9 Copy quote

• It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

  Peter Arnett

  Vietnam, Vietnam War

  7 Copy quote

• You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

  Zach Braff

  Play, Careers, Black

  7 Copy quote

• When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of fashion, like polyester blazers with rolled up sleeves. We don't have to suffer them anymore so why are there all these little people running around?

  Zach Braff

  Running, Fashion, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

  Pierre Salinger

  Texas, Cities, America

  6 Copy quote