Hometown Quotations | Page 2

There's someone who's going to be very motivated to do well against his hometown team.

The tilting of the playing field in favor of their hometown corporation makes Pennsylvania an unsafe place for investors. The whole purpose of law is to provide predictability, and what the legislature appears to be doing is to change in the middle of the game the rules that everyone was playing by.

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

THE RON CLARK STORY is the true story of one teacher's courage to leave his small hometown and head to one of the most challenging public schools in the country. We are proud to have an actor the caliber of Matthew Perry bringing his talents to such a memorable, inspirational story.

The Ron Clark Story' is the true story of one teacher's courage to leave his small hometown and head to one of the most challenging public schools in the country.

It would be terrific to have them back. It's nice to have hometown things you're proud of.

The spirit of the NASCAR fan has never been more evident than with the establishment of the Official NASCAR Members Club local chapters. Bringing NASCAR to a fan's hometown is one of the great benefits that the ONMC offers. Through the unfolding of this grassroots process, fans from all corners of America will now have a better opportunity to follow the sport in a more meaningful way.

Sarah Ruhl is fast becoming a major voice in the 21st century American theatre. Having witnessed the transformative effect of her unique and singular plays for over a decade, I have remained fiercely optimistic about the future of American theatre in the century ahead. I eagerly anticipate the transformation of the Arena audience in my own hometown of Washington, D.C.

Performing in my hometown reminds me where I came from, and that I am so grateful for my childhood, ... It also means being with family members. Then I'm also reminded of the unbelievable places God has taken me around the world.

Primarily, there are messages from a Yahoo group that are most interesting, ... There are memories, a few photos, a photo of Myron's hometown and some historic photos. There are links to other sites Welk related.

Northeast China was occupied by the Japanese invaders for 14 years and my hometown Taiwan was even under the control of the Japanese for 50 years. These are the great shame of our nationality,

The Olympics unite sports enthusiasts around the world with everyone cheering on their hometown heroes and admiring the skills of the top ranked athletes. Everybody bets and with some really high profile and sometimes controversial athletes like Bode Miller, there's a lot of hype and interest in the Games. We're happy to offer our fans a chance to wager on the outcome of their favorite events.

Delta's new service to Africa will mark many firsts for our hometown of Atlanta and for our customers, including the first non-stop service between Atlanta and Senegal on the West African coast, and the first Delta-operated service from Atlanta to Johannesburg. We encourage our customers to make their support for Delta's first service to Africa known to help ensure a speedy approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation for this historic new route.

As a proud Oklahoman, I'm honored to receive this recognition from my home state and hometown community,

Your husband was a hometown hero, ... And all the people identified with this island are hometown heroes for the good work they've been doing that will benefit everyone. This is what makes us one of the greatest areas in the country.

This is going to be a great and exciting event, not only for boxing fans, but for me personally, because I get to fight alongside two of my Olympic teammates, Andre Dirrell and Devin Vargas. I'm looking forward to putting on a spectacular performance in front of my hometown crowd and then letting the fans get an up close and personal look of Andre and Devin, just like we did in Athens.

This is one of the most important markets in the country, yet it has no hometown airline.

This is the chance of a lifetime fighting in front of my hometown fans. The world is going to find out what everyone who has seen me fight already knows.

They've done a great job of mining their hometown talent. It's been the reason they've developed the consistency at the top that they have.

America is not an elephant. For one thing, elephants never forget, whereas Americans don't really know much to begin with. Ninety per cent of them can't pick out their hometown on an unmarked map...We're bigger than they are and we're on top. If we were in prison, they'd be our bitch.

There's already some movie interest, and this is the first of a series of books. In the next book, Nicky Deuce brings the Brooklyn gang to his New Jersey hometown and sets it on its ear.

It's just far too much of a hometown discount. Mike knew there was going to be a difference between offers, but not as much as $9 million, and that's what it could turn out to be.

It's a special story. You look at the hometown guys like Kyle Davies, Jeff Francoeur, Blaine Boyer and Brian McCann, and to see the role they're playing on the team right now, there couldn't be a better story in baseball.

It's a big event, obviously, and a lot of people are going to be watching it. It will be kind of cool to be back in my hometown for it.

It was fantastic. We were playing really early on, so we didn't really know if people were going to come out. I mean, it was our hometown and everything, but we didn't know if anyone was going to come out. We ended up having a pretty good draw.

It will be a fun time to be able to play a venue like the Royal Oak Music Theatre and to be able to play a big show for our hometown crowd. We haven't had the chance to do that for a couple of years.

It was incredible to see the reception we received in my hometown of Mexico City. The media in Mexico do a great job covering Champ Car and now we know they are also very good football players.

It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being fed up with his hometown and his local 7-11.

It's one of those things, I don't think I'd ever live it down. She's not only a former player, she's from my hometown (of Arcadia). She was a great player for us and I know it's special for her to come back.

It's a lot of fun, ... Just being home, staying in my own bed, being around so many friends, people that go way back ... it's something that's very rare on tour. To be back so close to my hometown is a great feeling.

It's always great to play in front of your hometown crowd. It's something you can't underestimate, and we love playing at home.

It's always good to have hometown advantage. Something about it just makes you want to play better.

It's going to be tough at the NYSE for a while because he's going to be more progressive than most of the establishment. He's not a hometown boy. For the industry's sake, I hope he sticks it out.

It's hard to get donors to think about other important causes. It's a shame for the people in Niger and Mali and people in everyone's hometown that are in need. ... They'll have to suffer also because of Katrina.

Dawn is the only female on the board. She and her family have been part of Lansing for a long, long time. She adds a hometown perspective to her decision-making.

The big thing was we heard from some seniors . . . in terms of them wanting to stay in their hometown and not being able to,

It's been four years since we left Huntington in search for a bigger world, and we're coming back to reintroduce ourselves to our old hometown scene.

It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. That was a lot of fun. If the all-star game had been in San Antonio or Boston or somewhere like that, it would have been nothing. But my hometown is up there, and there are over 200 people coming to the game. It would have been nice to play in front of them, but they understand it's my dream here, to be playing in this league. It's just too bad, I guess.

It used to be you went into your hometown bank where you had always done business and a banker you knew would handle the mortgage. It was all local. Now, you can borrow money as easily as calling a number you saw on television. One loan and then another loan - it all starts to pile up.

It will be nice for them to play in front of their hometown crowds, play in front of their parents.

They are hometown heroes. I know they are going to be excited about coming home, but it's not about us against Steve Blake and Juan Dixon. We are trying to get the win and get back to .500.

It was just a lot of fun. The chance to be able to play in your hometown and to be able to accomplish some of the things I did was awesome.

It was her last event of the day at 8:30 or 9, and it was kind of her hometown area. She owned up to it and apologized right away.

It was intimidating to be there because this was (Bush's) hometown and dissenting voices weren't welcome here, ... We decided we would buy a house so people who came to protest would feel that they have a place here.

It's not at all like other sites. Reno pulls the biggest crowd by far. There's a lot of hometown support. Boxing is known throughout Reno. They really support it. At Cal (Berkeley) or Vegas they don't get half the draw.

Anytime you win against a hometown rival, it's neat. The fans are more into it, and means more to the people of Springdale.

The intent of the legislation was never to interfere with the ability of people to interact with their elected representatives. This was a common-sense way to allow people to continue coming to Tallahassee to interact with their hometown representatives.

I'm really excited to come back to my hometown (of Toronto), oh yes indeed, I'm back! Daddy's back in black.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

I'm pretty much the only Georgia guy left out there as of right now, so it's going to be pretty cool to try to run well for the hometown fans,

I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

I like Troy. I consider it my hometown now.

I know my girls always look forward to running in front of the supportive hometown fans. We've got Columbus (No. 3 in the state) coming to town and we look forward to the challenge.

I really enjoy being in a small town. I think if I grew up in New York City and tried to shape my own music path, it would be so much more difficult. There's so much going on around you and the sensory input is like you're overloaded. So coming out of a smaller, hometown area, where there's not a lot going on, especially in the creative sense, it allows you to be a little more free. I really enjoyed that.

In the second half we came out and attacked more offensively and locked down on defense. We made them turn the ball over a lot more than we did. (Terry) definitely stepped up and made big shots. It was his hometown so he wanted to come up here and play good and he did.

Cale Hulse is a tremendous person who came in and did everything we asked of him during his time with the Blue Jackets. This move will give him an opportunity to play in his hometown and we wish him all the best.

Before September 11, 2001, our law enforcement officers caught criminals and locked them up, our firefighters put out fires and saved lives and property, and our emergency medical personnel cared for those injured in accidents. We now live in a new era. Our police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel now have an added responsibility as the front line troops for hometown security.

Because of David and the continued success of the program, the Bulldogs are on the national scene of college football. The fact that he was a Valley high school product, a true home-grown, hometown hero makes this event more special.

Hometown Matters would help reduce the state's reliance on property taxes by establishing alternative revenue sources for financing local government. It would also create more efficient local government. Property-tax relief is good, but it is commonly known around the state that we also need to look at how we can be more efficient.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

I can't wait to see my hometown again, and I am thrilled to have the chance to see the crowd at the MTS Centre. The support and encouragement I have received have been overwhelming, and I look forward to the opportunity to personally share with everyone just how much it has meant.

I count it a joy and a privilege to partner with my family for the concert, ... The added joy is that I get to come to my hometown and play. I've been away for a long time. I moved to Los Angeles in 1986.

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down.

I feel I have to prove something to the hometown fans and for the state of West Virginia which doesn't have a lot of guys getting Division I (scholarships). Randy Moss and those guys paved the way.

I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.

I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

You can't ask for anything more than playing in your hometown on your home floor. I think it's definitely an advantage for us because we're so familiar with it.

The kids always like to see the clowns and decorations and horses. It's kind of the old-school rodeo parade. We encourage people to come out and enjoy the hometown event.

The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure.

The Fieldstone Inn asked us to do a holiday concert up there last year and it was a sellout. We think the hometown audience deserves to hear it too.

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.

I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.