Town Quotes - page 6

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. (Helen Fisher)
The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries. View quote
Jenny Lawson
I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know. View quote
Carson McCullers
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. View quote
Carson McCullers
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time. View quote
Alton Brown
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. (Cornelia Funke)
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. View quote
Quincy Jones
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. View quote
Lisa See
People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were. View quote
Lisa Unger
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. View quote
Michael Caine
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium. View quote
Paul Allen
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. View quote
Bo Bennett
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. View quote
James Earl Jones
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. View quote
Ishmael Beah
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. (Katherine Dunham)
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. View quote
Layne Staley
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. View quote
Patty Duke
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. View quote
Franka Potente
I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic? View quote
Alexander Koch