No more small towns for me. I was going to the city to get…

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

— George Clooney

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all…

— Suzi Quatro

“Jesus. Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, L.A., and Seattle, plus two small towns she'd never heard of in the Gulf Coast region. The unit…

— Kay Hooper

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United…

— Stendhal

I want people who live in small towns to know I hear them, I see them and I know what it's like.

— Noah Kahan

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder

Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches, but every…

— Amy Miller

Those who live in small towns definitely are the ones who have so much of apnapan, as compared to the cold-hearted people in metros…

— Manini Mishra

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

“The Republicans did not set out to establish a strong national state or to facilitate the industrial revolution. They believed strongly in the American…

— David R. Goldfield

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina,…

— Nicholas Sparks

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

— Bob the Drag Queen

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that…

— Charles Kuralt

Back home, I find small towns very peaceful. When my father and uncle were still in the film business, we had a tradition of…

— Prabhas