A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels?… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach... — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won’t have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times.… — Marion Dudley Cran Copy Share Image
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football.… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A. — Justin Moore Copy Share Image
Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in… — Plato Copy Share Image
When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida,… — John Green Copy Share Image