Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all…
— Susan Sarandon
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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first…
— Maya Angelou
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed…
— Pat Conroy
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The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter…
— Jim Cymbala
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When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just…
— George Clooney
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
— Samuel Johnson
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,…
— Hal Porter
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world…
— Quentin Bryce
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in…
— Diane Ackerman
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Be nice. (The world is a small town.)
— Austin Kleon
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Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and…
— Barack Obama
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people
— Verne Troyer
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Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We…
— Christian Siriano
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My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside…
— Josh McDowell
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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
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A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.
— John Wolcot
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.
— Johnny Cash
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As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not…
— Samuel
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On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
— David Byrne
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I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
— Diane Paulus
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I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers…
— Joe Jonas
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I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays…
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
— Pierce Brosnan
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There…
— Sarah Vowell
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