Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
— Phillips Brooks
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Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him…
— Charles Kingsley
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You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are…
— O. Henry
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I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
— Wilson Mizner
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I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the…
— Eugene Field
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
— Bette Midler
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San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.
— Dave Matthews
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I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I…
— Alice Munro
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This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough,…
— Bobby Knight
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If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go…
— Dave Foley
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By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a…
— Paul Goldberger
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There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave…
— J. Milton Hayes
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A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other…
— Geronimo
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Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no…
— Eric Thomas
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The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying…
— David Letterman
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There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight…
— Rachel Carson
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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
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I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I…
— Will Rogers
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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
— Will Rogers
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Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
— Buddy Guy
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
— Will Rogers
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Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk…
— David Letterman
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men…
— Will Rogers
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Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is…
— Will Rogers
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