Towns Quotes · Page 17

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

— Patrick Ewing

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

— Charles Baudelaire

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

— Sally Stanford

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

— Anonymous

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

— Layne Staley

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

— Gene Pitney

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do…

— William Shakespeare

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

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

— Bruce Springsteen

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

— Byron Dorgan

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for…

— Russ Feingold

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even…

— Louise Erdrich

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are…

— Kent Haruf

Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there…

— Peter Jennings

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this…

— Seth Shostak

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being…

— Mark Twain

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the…

— Dylan Thomas

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements…

— Christopher Alexander

Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town,…

— Roopal Patel

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images…

— Lydia Lunch

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers…

— Chapman Cohen

People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big…

— Irvine Welsh

You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the…

— Gucci Mane

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the…

— Franz Kafka

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because…

— Michelle Obama

She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down…

— Michael Grant

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you…

— Jay Asher

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

— Arnold Rothstein

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

— Joe Walsh

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,

— Peter Arnett

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

— Robert Frost

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

— Julius Wellhausen

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

— Tom Brokaw

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

— John Wolcot