Best Hometown Quotations
156 Hometown quotes by 141 unique authors
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I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to…
— Jewel
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I saw my hometown burning that day.
— Rodney King
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I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.
— Evel Knievel
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Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back…
— Guy Lafleur
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My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of…
— Denis Leary
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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
— Ang Lee
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It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come…
— Reba McEntire
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Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown…
— Michael Moore
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Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
— Jack Nicklaus
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I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia,…
— Walter Payton
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that…
— Salman Rushdie
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing…
— Stacy Schiff
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I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love…
— Jill Scott
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I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
— Maria Sharapova
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Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip…
— Rob Sheffield
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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we…
— Bruce Springsteen
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
— Gertrude Stein
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the…
— Taylor Swift
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot…
— Taylor Swift
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -…
— Martin Filler
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Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem…
— Sarah Palin
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141 authors contributed a total of 156 Hometown Quotes, led by these top contributors: