Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice… — Robert Baden-Powell
When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up. — Ron Ziegler
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to… — Lesley Gore
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted… — George Edmund Street
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It… — Matthew Sweet
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
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did. — Lee Ann Womack
I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and… — Donald T. Regan
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour… — Donna Rice Hughes
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart.… — Marion Dane Bauer
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug… — A. N. Wilson
This town needs an enema! — Jack Nicholson
From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down. — Edgar Allan Poe
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. — John Bunyan
When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
I see that you are not sure of what you should do. You must remain steadfast, Monsieur. It would be a great wrong for you… — Vincent de Paul
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and… — Leonardo da Vinci
For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can… — Naomi Shihab Nye
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,… — Tom Turner

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