Growing up Quote by Darrelle Revis

Aliquippa is a small town. Everybody knows everybody.

— Darrelle Revis

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s.…

— Tim Ryan

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class…

— Tom Perez

Our town was not very wealthy, it is a humble place, and my mom and dad didn't have much money. They were always working,…

— Alex Pereira

“The Valley might not actually make much in the way of tangible goods, but like industrial centers before it, it’s the place where the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny…

— Michael Lomenda

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

— Cesar Romero

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

— Jessica Lynch

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

— Philip Caputo

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

— David Lynch

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

There are so many places in our state that are just economically desolated and so what they're looking for are good quality jobs and…

— Amy McGrath