When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
“I thought people in small towns were supposed to be nice, not act like the son of Satan.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Marietta is a place where you can get a great education, have a long career and succeed as an entrepreneur, all while… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to… — Estelle Parsons Copy Share Image
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Small towns were like Facebook without an Internet connection; once something got on the “wall” of collective memory, it was there to… — Laura DiSilverio Copy Share Image
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic. — Jacob Lofland Copy Share Image
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues.… — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Alice's mother used to host wild edible classes that would attract a lot of people, but this was a small town and… — Keith Lesmeister Copy Share Image
Simply put, some of our small towns need to modernize their infrastructure so that we can support efforts to grow the economy… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
“Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Life before the Internet sucked. My life as a kid growing up in suburban Michigan consisted of urban sprawl, shopping malls, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest.… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“Jesus. Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, L.A., and Seattle, plus two small towns she'd never heard of in the Gulf Coast region.… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image