Town Quotes - page 9

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. (Herschel Walker)
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. View quote
Herschel Walker
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors. View quote
Harvey Gantt
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar. View quote
Hayden Fry
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town. View quote
Irving Paul Lazar
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. View quote
January Jones
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home. View quote
Jayma Mays
I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built. View quote
Jeffrey Skoll
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. View quote
Jeffrey Tate
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful. View quote
Jack Markell
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. (John Buford)
I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat. View quote
June Squibb
Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world. View quote
Justin Chambers
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square. View quote
Justin Sane
In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king. View quote
Ken Harrelson
I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. View quote
Kevin Pollak
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. View quote
Kate Smith
I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually. View quote
Kelli O'Hara
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh. View quote
Leo Kottke
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town. View quote
Lesley Gore
You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor. (Lillie Langtry)
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. View quote
Lee Majors
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. View quote
Margot Kidder