College Quote by Matthew Sweet

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach.…

— Kevin Brady

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the…

— Chelsea Manning

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive…

— Beth Ditto

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's…

— DJ Qualls

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping…

— Natasha Trethewey

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

— James Polshek

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

— George Kittle

I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that…

— Jason Peter

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

— Leon Krier

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

— Karyn Kusama