Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids'… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about… — Eric Dickerson Copy Share Image
Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know we all like to think of the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling… — Rachel Griffiths 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
Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town.… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the… — Vanya Asher Copy Share Image
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone -… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
