After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and… — Harvey Gantt 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
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid - growing up in a small town in Iowa, going to Chapel Hill for college and… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it… — Lukas Haas Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family.… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there,… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University.… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
I guess more than anything, Green Bay just felt like home. You know, small town, good people who love their football... it… — Julius Peppers Copy Share Image
If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest,… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, in a small house, with a raspberry bush in the backyard...I think one thing that… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my… — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town - Niagara, outside of Toronto. When I was a kid, I thought it was really boring, but… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“There's just something about making whoopee out under the stars that keeps a heart young, a mind sharp, and"-- she leaned close… — C.H. Admirand Copy Share Image
But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set.… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns… — Bob Taft Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest and never really felt at home there, and when I got to New York, I was… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind… — Joe Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image