Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion… — Christina Rossetti
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal… — Henry David Thoreau
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and… — D. H. Lawrence
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory… — Elie Wiesel
In a town church the right place for the admission of light. — George Edmund Street
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town. — Natalia Kills
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away… — Stephen King
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like… — Ian Shoales
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts. — Woody Allen
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the… — Daniel J. Boorstin
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that… — Giambattista Valli
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the… — Laini Taylor
Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a… — Richard Turner
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town,… — Alexander Hamilton
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. — Brooks Atkinson
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… — Arthur Conan Doyle
New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing… — Art Buchwald
Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. — Pete Hamill
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. — Lee Iacocca

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