Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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What happened when you were twelve?” “Oh, Mom offered to take us all out for dinner—us girls, Dad was out of town—to celebrate, but I…
— Richelle Mead
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.
— Sam Walton
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Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works…
— Max Perutz
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I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean…
— Sheryl Crow
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Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend…
— Unknown Author
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
— Joe Strummer
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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
— H.G. Wells
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In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.
— Richard John Neuhaus
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My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
— George Gobel
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Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it…
— Roger Bannister
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I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't…
— Maya Angelou
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
— Tommy Lasorda
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In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love…
— Armistead Maupin
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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons…
— Sun Tzu
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I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there.…
— Cynthia Breazeal
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Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
— Judith Miller
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Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the…
— Mark McKinnon
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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
— Bjarke Ingels
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I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
— Valerie Azlynn
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