Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that… — Rachel Caine
Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) — D. J. MacHale
There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as… — George Carlin
It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside;… — Dodie Smith
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... — Peter S. Beagle
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread… — Robin McKinley
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
A paper town for a paper girl. — John Green
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in… — Scott Westerfeld
Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well... — Philip Reeve
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person… — Richard Brautigan
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the… — Chris Cleave
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. — John Knowles
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom… — William Shakespeare
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is… — Scott Westerfeld
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of… — Toni Morrison
And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered… — Jay Asher
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey. — Markus Zusak
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and… — Neal Stephenson

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