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
I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it. — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the… — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America.… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s… — Louie Bellson Copy Share Image
That's how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains… — Nicholas Hoult Copy Share Image
His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
