Towns Quotes · Page 11

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

— Muhammad Ali

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

— John Green

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

— Mira Nair

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

— Martin Mull

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

— Patti Smith

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

— Edgar Allan Poe

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

— Phil Ochs

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

— Gene Perret

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the…

— Gary Jarman

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

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole…

— Lalita Tademy

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

— Roger Ebert

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of…

— K.P. Yohannan

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…

— Stacy Schiff

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in…

— Chris Rock

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular…

— James Hilton

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti…

— Emma Thompson

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by…

— Kid Rock

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as…

— Steve Rasnic Tem

If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when…

— Jeff Schultz

I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,”…

— Rachel Caine

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in…

— Christopher Columbus

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the…

— Alice Morse Earle

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a…

— Hope Davis

Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village…

— Flora Thompson

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic…

— Martina Navratilova

She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black…

— Georgette Heyer

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches,…

— Anonymous

But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and…

— Thomas Wolfe

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition…

— Eric Alterman

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling…

— Christopher Alexander

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

— Jason Flemyng

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

— Naomi Judd

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

— Simon Armitage

“We are all from small towns. But we dream big!”

— Avijeet Das

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

— Nicholas Sparks

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

— Aziz Ansari