My Town Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to… — John Henrik Clarke
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in… — Maya Angelou
We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no,… — Christina Hendricks
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no… — Alan Jackson
Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex — Wiz Khalifa
I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. — Scott Wolf
They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my… — Johnny Bench
When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so… — Trevor Nunn
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. — Sheila Jackson Lee
Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell… — Russ Feingold
There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't… — Michael Imperioli
I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was… — Ishmael
I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy… — Jonathan Gottschall
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went… — Jodie Foster
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing… — Ellie Goulding
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused.… — Fred Durst
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does… — Susan Orlean
So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town… — Taylor Swift
I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day,… — Gary D. Schmidt

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41 authors contributed a total of 45 My Town Quotes, led by these top contributors: