Backgrounds Quote by Damian McGinty

“On the opposite side, at about seven o’clock, is the little town of Urbanna where the famous Oyster Festival is held every year.”

— Anonymous

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

— Trent Reznor

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

— Garrison Keillor

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

— Rachel Field

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we…

— George Jones

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few…

— Victor Hugo

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

— Jonathan Van Ness

I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich…

— Ruth Glick

I was a 16-year-old little girl from this little town who just wanted to sing.

— Nicola Roberts

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by…

— Walter Kirn

“Our fellow-citizens, as they now realized, had never thought that our little town might be a place particularly chosen as one where rats die…

— Albert Camus

I'm trying to show that it doesn't matter where you are from, even a little town like Green Cove. You can make it.

— Caeleb Dressel

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

— John Lee Hancock

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we…

— Maeve Binchy

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and…

— Bill Bailey