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
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.” — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Marietta is a place where you can get a great education, have a long career and succeed as an entrepreneur, all while… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to… — Estelle Parsons 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
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in… — Genevieve Gorder 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
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
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern… — Nicholas Sparks 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
When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when… — Krysten Ritter 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
“Alice's mother used to host wild edible classes that would attract a lot of people, but this was a small town and… — Keith Lesmeister 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
“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
“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
“A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the… — Cornell Woolrich 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
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
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed… — Thomas Frank 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
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. — Agatha Christie 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
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
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar. — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into… — Daughn Gibson Copy Share Image
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to keep kids from leaving small towns when they’re old enough to move on.” “Unless family is holding them back.” — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
Dusty small towns and big families. Cooling my memory like a summer rain. Cold well water and dewberry pie. Brazos River running… — Ruthie Foster Copy Share Image
Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
