Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city…
— Willie Stargell
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There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
— Sam Walton
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I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma…
— Kelli O'Hara
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The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.
— Unknown Author
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Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave…
— Robert H. Frank
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I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why…
— Ian Shoales
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If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll…
— Bubba Sparxxx
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I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when…
— Jack Kerouac
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
— Robert Frost
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My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early…
— Richard McKenna
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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
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It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth…
— Samuel Johnson
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But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
— Don Roff
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To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and…
— Harvey Milk
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by…
— Frederick Reines
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Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing…
— Kathy Mattea
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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the…
— Karen Lord
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Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really,…
— Ilya Ilf
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Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.
— Andy Adams
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I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big…
— Mary Meeker
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Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
— Bill Bryson
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I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in…
— Michael Koryta
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
— Mary Karr
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When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance…
— Tony Clark
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He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes.…
— Woody Allen
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