Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. — William Wycherley
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? — Henny Youngman
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50… — Michael Eric Dyson
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's… — Helen Fisher
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different. — Anurag Kashyap
Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which… — Dorothy Allison
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against… — Stephen King
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars… — Thornton Wilder
That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings… — Thornton Wilder
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's… — Bill McKibben
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.… — Franz Kafka
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms… — Michael Chabon
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely… — William Faulkner
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will… — Tom Robbins
...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but… — Thomas Wolfe
[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians… — Bob Dylan
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. — William Gibson
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of… — Dylan Thomas
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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