I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I…

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

— Jim Gaffigan

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box."…

— Lissie

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the…

— James Cameron

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't…

— Lauren Miller

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

— Paul Rust

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth,…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

— Viktor Vekselberg

I've always lived in small places.

— Devendra Banhart

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night.…

— Mark Hoppus

“For the last four years I lived alone in a small house. The ceiling of one room had collapsed, and plaster dust was everywhere,…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

— Sherman Alexie

I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all…

— Ruskin Bond

But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense…

— Christine Jennings

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town…

— Keith Coogan

Dad was hopeless with money, even though he ran a business. We lived in a small terrace house and I vividly remember going into…

— Maureen Lipman