Towns Quotations

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.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

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

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

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

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

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

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

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

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

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

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and, like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

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

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew.

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.