Towns Quotes

1595 Towns quotes by 1229 unique authors

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. — Edward Burnett Tylor
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman! — Inspectah Deck
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. — Alison Moyet
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of… — Selma Blair
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has… — Rene Auberjonois
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the… — Pope John Paul II
I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they… — Sarah Palin
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than… — Raymond Loewy
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in… — Penelope Lively
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the… — Toni Morrison
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is… — Wayne Dyer
If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. — Sally Stanford
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the… — Frank O'Connor
When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting… — Krysten Ritter
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. — Esther Williams
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns. — Mahatma Gandhi
The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only… — David Icke
You will go to the paper towns and never come back. — John Green
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or… — Albert Allen Bartlett

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