Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion… — Wendell Berry
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes… — Bob Dylan
Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks… — Kelley Armstrong
She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I… — Richard Kadrey
I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to… — Julia Quinn
Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh,… — Rachel Caine
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.… — Sarah Dessen
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.… — Megan Whalen Turner
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating… — David Mitchell
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. — Sarah Dessen
Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point. — Rachel Caine
Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In the… — Jim Butcher
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house… — John Steinbeck
Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and… — Kelley Armstrong
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a… — Jay Asher
Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and… — William Shakespeare
My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking. — Groucho Marx
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads… — Victor Hugo
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. — Mark Twain
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in… — Fernando Pessoa
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star... — Meg Wolitzer
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about… — Libba Bray
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King

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