Quotes about Hometown

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. Votes: 4

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. Votes: 4

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order. Votes: 4

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. Votes: 4

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable. Votes: 3

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston. Votes: 3

We all have hometown appetites, Votes: 2

I saw my hometown burning that day. Votes: 2

I've always wanted to win in my hometown. Votes: 2

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things. Votes: 2

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. Votes: 2

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal. Votes: 2

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. Votes: 2

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound. Votes: 2

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. Votes: 2

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world. Votes: 2

The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger. Votes: 2

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. Votes: 2

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. Votes: 2

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. Votes: 2

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! Votes: 2

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year. Votes: 2

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy. Votes: 2

My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my whole life. Votes: 2

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. Votes: 2

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me. Votes: 2

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out. Votes: 2

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown. Votes: 2

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso. Votes: 2

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you. Votes: 2

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! Votes: 2

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind. Votes: 2

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that. Votes: 2

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. Votes: 2

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961 Votes: 2

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California. Votes: 2

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. Votes: 2

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Votes: 2

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling. Votes: 2

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England. Votes: 2

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. Votes: 2

God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that. Votes: 2

Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them. Votes: 2

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. Votes: 2

I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want. Votes: 2

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. Votes: 2

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. Votes: 2

People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it's hard to go out every night or make the effort to meet people in your hometown, if you haven't already met them all. Online there's this infinite possibility of meeting this person who, no matter where they live, you're meant to be with. Votes: 2

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what. Votes: 2

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway. Votes: 2

My inspiration is my hometown. Votes: 0

In my hometown memories are fresh. Votes: 0

I never wore high heels in my hometown. Votes: 0

New York is my, you know, second hometown. Votes: 0

America is my country and Paris is my hometown Votes: 0

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del. Votes: 0

In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see. Votes: 0

There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown. Votes: 0

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown. Votes: 0

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi. Votes: 0

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart. Votes: 0

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. Votes: 0

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special. Votes: 0

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special. Votes: 0

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back. Votes: 0

In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up. Votes: 0

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. Votes: 0

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. Votes: 0

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents. Votes: 0

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown. Votes: 0

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing. Votes: 0

Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song. Votes: 0

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. Votes: 0

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world. Votes: 0

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown. Votes: 0

It's a big thing back in my hometown about me being here. There are a lot of people behind me. Votes: 0

The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street. Votes: 0

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. Votes: 0

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit. Votes: 0

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am? Votes: 0

I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective. Votes: 0

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. Votes: 0

This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players. Votes: 0

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown. Votes: 0

I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully. Votes: 0

I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about. Votes: 0

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years. Votes: 0

Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day. Votes: 0

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va. Votes: 0

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk. Votes: 0

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind. Votes: 0

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. Votes: 0

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. Votes: 0

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Votes: 0

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author. Votes: 0

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt. Votes: 0

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it! Votes: 0

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. Votes: 0

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice. Votes: 0

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you. Votes: 0

People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. Votes: 0

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point? Votes: 0

I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do. Votes: 0

I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers. Votes: 0

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany. Votes: 0

I had an amazing time on 'Stargate: Atlantis', and a really great run on that show, which was shot in my hometown. It was kind of a dream job. Votes: 0

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see. Votes: 0

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany. Votes: 0

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces. Votes: 0

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home. Votes: 0

I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it. Votes: 0

I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school. Votes: 0

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. Votes: 0

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness. Votes: 0

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown. Votes: 0

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court. Votes: 0

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people. Votes: 0

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. Votes: 0

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive. Votes: 0

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person. Votes: 0

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan. Votes: 0

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead. Votes: 0

I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.' Votes: 0

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him. Votes: 0

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. Votes: 0

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing. Votes: 0

There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now. Votes: 0

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them. Votes: 0

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people. Votes: 0

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me. Votes: 0

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. Votes: 0