Left Quote by Mona Simpson Download Open image “I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.” — Mona Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Left Lived Midwest Old Since Small Small town Town Twelve Years
I could have moved anywhere I wanted to. But for family reasons, I stayed in the Midwest. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school. — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
I have always been 'small town.' I was born outside of Philadelphia, so we lived on a 20-acre farm and then spent two years… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook,… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's… — Hope Davis Copy Share
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image