Town Quotes - page 45

How incomprehensible is woman's love! -it is not kindness that wins it, nor return that insures it; we daily see the most devoted attachment lavished on those who seem to us singularly unworthy. The Spectator shewed his usual knowledge of human nature, when, in speaking on this subject, he relates, that in a town besieged by the enemy, on the women being allowed to depart with whatever they held most precious, only one among them carried off her husband,-a man notorious for his tyrannical temper, and who had, moreover, a bad-or, as it turned out, a good-habit of beating his wife every morning. Well, all governments are maintained by fear-fear being our great principle of action; and fear, we are tempted to believe, heightens and strengthens the love of woman. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. View quote
Anna Nicole Smith
Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities. View quote
Iggy Pop
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. View quote
Newt Gingrich
It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie... View quote
Garrison Keillor
I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town. View quote
Seth MacFarlane
So that's my home town, and I come from a perfectly ordinary working-class family; and in fact, I didn't really meet middle-class people until I went to university. It was quite a shock, really. People were saying things like 'Well, I was always going to end up doing English, because I was brought up surrounded by books - brought up in a house full of books'; and I'd think 'Yes, so was I; but they were full of Green Shield stamps. View quote
Linda Smith
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town. View quote
William Gibson
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating. View quote
Rachel McAdams
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. View quote
Val Kilmer
I live a very dull life here and know nothing that passes in the town - I never go to any public place; indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. (Martha Washington)
I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food. View quote
Sienna Miller
I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange. View quote
James McAvoy
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. View quote
Maya Angelou
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows. View quote
Jason Aldean
One big promise of the Internet was that it would be a great democratizing force, allowing us to become exposed to new ideas that we might not otherwise encounter in our town, workplace or social circle. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. View quote
Dennis Quaid
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed. View quote
Ben Bernanke
Secondly, get rid of all dependence upon the central department. If you do not as yet perceive that public money can not wisely, in any shape, be taken for education, still refuse the grant that the central department offers as a bribe for the acceptance of its mischievous interference. Until individual self-reliance has grown among us, let each town administer education in its own way. (Auberon Herbert)
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. View quote
Georges Duhamel
Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere. View quote
Frank Miller
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. View quote
Neil Gaiman