Children Quote by Thomas Hardy

“...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

“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

“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas…

— Don DeLillo

“...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

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes…

— Marvin Allan Williams

“Little City wasn’t really a city. It was more like a big town, with twenty thousand citizens. There had been fewer than four hundred…

— Dean Koontz

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

— Sonya Hartnett

“But there’s a million of these towns that are like factories, breeding hate and fear that only the fortunate will never meet And these…

— Volatalistic Phil

“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

“You can always tell when a town has gone bad. People gather in little groups, talking in low voices. Their postures are taut and…

— Patrick Buchanan

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

— Laurie Notaro