Hometown Quotes · Page 5

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

— Fred Allen

I'm the same Nina Turner, whether I'm on MSNBC or talking to my hometown newspaper or CNN.

— Nina Turner

I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.

— Toni Basil

“I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Yoko Ono

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

— Tom Douglas

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

— Phyllis Smith

“to help Dodge back when nobody else in his hometown of Hailey,”

— Christy Hayes

There's a lot of stuff I thought I'd do in the world, but I never thought I'd have a street named after…

— Darius Rucker

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three…

— Columba Bush

I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same…

— Deshaun Watson

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's…

— Salman Rushdie

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50…

— Brendon Burchard

I had an amazing time on 'Stargate: Atlantis', and a really great run on that show, which was shot in my hometown.…

— Jewel Staite

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

— Robert Breault

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

— Celestino Caballero

I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of…

— Mary Karr

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home…

— Britney Spears

I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you…

— Dean Winters

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I wish I was fighting Jason High in his hometown. I would put him to sleep in front of all his fans.…

— Justin Gaethje

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on…

— Tate Taylor

Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding…

— Big K.R.I.T

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

— Dave Filoni

“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.”

— Gao Xingjian

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

— Buddy Rice

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

— Fabio Quagliarella

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

— Hidilyn Diaz

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

— Ally Brooke

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.

— K. Flay

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

— Madeline Brewer

It's such a big dream of mine to be singing in front of my friends and family in my hometown.

— Ally Brooke

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

— Drake

Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I hear my voice and I cringe, I kind of hear Philadelphia in there, my hometown.

— Michael Buffer

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

— Jodelle Ferland

I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.

— Derek Trucks

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

— J. Courtney Sullivan