Quote by Ralph Ellison

“Sometimes it feels like I live in such a shit town. It meets all reasonable definitions of a shit town. There are still men…

— Nick Earls

“‎The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it,…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it. You cannot talk about faith. You have to live it. You cannot talk about…

— Dragos Bratasanu

“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.”

— Jaycee Ford

“That woman grinds my grits, and that's a fact.”

— Nancy Turner

“Seems like our life's over and done." "No, it ain't," Ma smiled. "It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I…

— John Steinbeck

“Welcome to the land of the living sweetheart. Everyone's messed up. It's what makes us human.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“If the world is your oyster, why are some people so full of grit?”

— Stacy S. Avary

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but…

— Joyce Dennys