I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every… — Matthew Sharpe Copy Share Image
In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo.… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me,… — Susannah York Copy Share Image
I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the… — Mary Sue Terry Copy Share Image