Town Quotes

1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. — Vincent Schiavelli
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. — James Longstreet
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. — Hedda Hopper
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in… — Ernst Toller
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. — Alison Bechdel
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under… — Adelbert von Chamisso
I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town. — Don Ameche
The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did. — Burt Lancaster
I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be… — Jason Mewes
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life… — George J. Mitchell
When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead… — Philip Gibbs
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public… — Steven Chu
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess;… — George Grey
If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone… — Timothy Murphy
I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the… — Lukas Haas
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to… — Robert Towne
Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put… — William Peter Blatty
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. — Hermann Maier
Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State. — Marsha Blackburn
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if… — Michael Ondaatje
Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town. — Kathryn Stockett
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box… — Joan Didion
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in… — Charles Kelley
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories… — James Rollins

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