When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing ever ends well for crazy people in small towns.,” — Molly D. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Amazing how the soup pots of small towns are just waiting to boil over anything at all.” — Pamela Porter Copy Share Image
“Small towns were like Facebook without an Internet connection; once something got on the “wall” of collective memory, it was there to… — Laura DiSilverio Copy Share Image
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.” — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
No matter where you go, big cities or small towns, you will always encounter small minded people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“in those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Dallas Metroplex. But I spent a lot of time in Waco and then in small towns down… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or… — Paul Theroux 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
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Simply put, some of our small towns need to modernize their infrastructure so that we can support efforts to grow the economy… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Life before the Internet sucked. My life as a kid growing up in suburban Michigan consisted of urban sprawl, shopping malls, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest.… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“For kids stuck in small towns everywhere who feel like you'll never escape, I hear you. We are all connected. We're all… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
“So, who are they really, these hundred thousand white supremacists? They're every white guy who believed that this land was his land,… — Michael S. Kimmel Copy Share Image
“It was as though the whole world was thrown back six or seven hundred years without having the organizations those ancient peoples… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
