Immigration Quote by Richard C. Longworth

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“In fact, the people who live in this town exist—millions of them. They just don’t happen to all live in the same town.”

— David Levithan

“Cities were once rural and one day they will turn to be rural again.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”

— Richard Peck

“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.…

— Jason Myers

“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the…

— John Irving

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

“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”

— Laurie Notaro

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

— Jayne Anne Phillips