Home Town Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute… — Paul Burrell
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a… — Roberto Duran
Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town,… — William Christopher Handy
Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy. — Calvin Trillin
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… — Samuel Johnson
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord"… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered… — Meredith Willson
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,… — Martina Navratilova
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect… — Peter MacKay
I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the… — Robert Vaughn
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can… — Kenneth Lonergan
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so… — Roman Coppola
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American… — James Howard Kunstler
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many… — William Jackson
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. Theyâ€™re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see… — Jane Wilson-Howarth
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town,… — Dick Van Dyke
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town. — Larry Hagman
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought,… — Anthony Hopkins
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school… — Robert Rodriguez
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet… — Tom Shales

Who Wrote These Home Town Quotes

34 authors contributed a total of 36 Home Town Quotes, led by these top contributors: