Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any… — Pico Iyer
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost… — Barry Commoner
Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my… — Ricky Gervais
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the… — Ricky Gervais
I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy… — Jonathan Gottschall
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see… — Jane Wilson-Howarth
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were… — Henry Adams
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who… — Flora Tristan
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up… — Ishmael Beah
It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it… — Colleen Hoover
The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there. — Colleen Hoover
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian
It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly… — Harper Lee
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded… — Henry Fielding
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes… — John Dos Passos
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown
If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working. — Billy Bob Thornton
I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot… — David Anders
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went… — Jodie Foster
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing… — Morgan Freeman
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar. — Hayden Fry
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go… — Neil Gaiman
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on… — William Gibson

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