Towns Quotes

Twitter is a global town square.

— Dick Costolo

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

— Johnny Manziel

I love only one girl, one in every town.

— Elvis Presley

“School should be the best party in town”

— Peter Kline

Hope will break your heart all over again.

— Tahereh Mafi

Every town has an Elm Street.

— Michael De Luca

I put music on and I drive around town.

— Chris Isaak

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

— Lord Acton

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

— Honore de Balzac

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

— Genghis Khan

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

— Ben Bernanke

Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

— Sloane Crosley

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

— Andy Stanley

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

— Wallace Stegner

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

— Jacob Zuma

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Once ESPN leaves you, and you don't have a foothold anywhere else, you're done. It's very hard to do anything else, because…

— Drew Magary

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived…

— Mary MacLane

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

— Ethel Waters

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave…

— Anonymous

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've…

— Ryan Gosling

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

— Norm Dicks

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

— James Howard Kunstler

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel…

— Dave Haywood

I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.…

— Ian Shoales

Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me…

— Kelley Armstrong

Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you…

— Jim Gaffigan

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as…

— Joan Cusack

Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny…

— Peter Jackson

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center…

— Don DeLillo

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club…

— Woody Guthrie

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should…

— Adam Rapp

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness…

— Cheryl Strayed

When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once…

— Patty Schemel

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west,…

— Judi Dench

It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and…

— Ronald Reagan

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance…

— Sam Walton

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without…

— John Green

I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though…

— Joy Williams