Hometown Quotes · Page 9

I couldn't relate to the mindset of people in my hometown. Since I had no educational qualification, I only got menial jobs…

— Harshvardhan Rane

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

— Stephen Jackson

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many…

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering.…

— Tucker Carlson

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

— Makoto Shinkai

I know this is my hometown of Toronto, but I'm going to treat 'TakeOver: Toronto' like it's another night at the office.…

— Bobby Roode

Jaipur is the hometown of my religious guruji. It has a special place in my heart, and I have been here several…

— Govinda

I'm so proud to represent my hometown on the International Space Station where we conduct scientific research that can benefit all of…

— Shannon Walker

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five,…

— Bruce Springsteen

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true…

— Anthony Doerr

Going from being totally anonymous to even sort of famous is a big adjustment. It was definitely weird being like, 'Hey, people…

— Andy Samberg

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and…

— Homer Hickam

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more…

— Katharine Graham

I don't think there's any extra pressure fighting in my hometown. It's just added motivation. Real pressure was fighting against 30,000 fans…

— Errol Spence Jr

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

— Daryl Hannah

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

This is not the job. We are just playing the game here. I am enjoying the game. I am playing every game…

— Nikola Jokic

I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're…

— Tank Abbott

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was…

— Irina Shayk

The original Pro Shop was in my hometown in Missouri. It was incredible. Whenever I see Bass Pro hats here in L.A.,…

— Chappell Roan

The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.

— James Holzhauer

Walking into my hometown where I grew up with crowds of people waiting for me to get pictures, it just didn't seem…

— Maura Higgins

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my…

— Cesar Pelli

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

— Lou Williams

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

— Richard Edelman

When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York…

— Molly Shannon

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

— Junot Diaz

I want to rematch 'Cigano' in Brazil, at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre. It would be a dream come true.…

— Fabricio Werdum

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the…

— Sturgill Simpson

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on…

— Clementine Paddleford

That was my dream since I was a kid, since I first saw a vale tudo event in my hometown of Sao…

— Demian Maia

I'm from the same hometown as Bo Jackson, I wish Bo Jackson would've snuck in the classroom and surprised me.

— Jameis Winston

People saying I want to come here, who doesn't want to play for their hometown? That's a dream come true, if you're…

— Paul George

I always really liked Allentown. The people were very down to earth. It reminded me a lot of my hometown in Minnesota.

— Bob Backlund

I've always wanted to play for my hometown team, always been an ambition. My father's a fan, my family are fans, my…

— Jonathan Woodgate

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place…

— Margaret Mead

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…

— Tayari Jones

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two…

— Kevin A. Ford