Quotes about Small Town

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Votes: 8

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. Votes: 8

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. Votes: 8

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people. Votes: 6

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. Votes: 6

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. Votes: 6

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals. Votes: 6

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey? Votes: 6

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time. Votes: 6

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. Votes: 6

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. Votes: 6

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea Votes: 6

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta. Votes: 6

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids. Votes: 6

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. Votes: 6

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. Votes: 6

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied. Votes: 6

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful. Votes: 6

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon. Votes: 5

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere. Votes: 5

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Votes: 5

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.' Votes: 5

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care. Votes: 5

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. Votes: 5

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. Votes: 5

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports. Votes: 5

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. Votes: 5

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. Votes: 5

From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. Votes: 5

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become. Votes: 5

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. Votes: 5

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious. Votes: 5

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that. Votes: 5

Small towns harbor small imaginations. Votes: 4

I lived in Minnesota in a small town. Votes: 4

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender. Votes: 4

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. Votes: 4

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. Votes: 4

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. Votes: 4

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed. Votes: 4

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York. Votes: 4

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did. Votes: 4

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. Votes: 4

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent. Votes: 4

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business. Votes: 4

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. Votes: 4

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. Votes: 4

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel. Votes: 4

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Votes: 4

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. Votes: 4

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than 拢40. Votes: 4

All my friends are so small town. Votes: 3

Childhood is the small town everyone came from. Votes: 3

Be nice. (The world is a small town.) Votes: 3

It takes a small town to keep you humble. Votes: 3

A small town has as many eyes as a fly Votes: 3

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness. Votes: 3

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious. Votes: 3

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town Votes: 3

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. Votes: 3

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. Votes: 3

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask. Votes: 3

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. Votes: 3

When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze. Votes: 3

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town. Votes: 3

Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town. Votes: 3

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose. Votes: 3

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada. Votes: 3

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up. Votes: 3

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. Votes: 3

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. Votes: 3

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city. Votes: 3

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. Votes: 3

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal. Votes: 3

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. Votes: 3

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri Votes: 3

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of. Votes: 3

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. Votes: 3

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire. Votes: 3

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap. Votes: 3

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. Votes: 3

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris. Votes: 3

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport. Votes: 3

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A. Votes: 3

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household. Votes: 3

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. Votes: 3

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Votes: 3

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. Votes: 3

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America. Votes: 3

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. Votes: 3

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people. Votes: 3

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people Votes: 3

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home. Votes: 3

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports. Votes: 3

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town. Votes: 3

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka. Votes: 3

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. Votes: 3

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner. Votes: 3

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties. Votes: 3

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. Votes: 3

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders. Votes: 3

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. Votes: 3

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it. Votes: 3

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. Votes: 3

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. Votes: 3

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. Votes: 3

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. Votes: 3

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist. Votes: 3

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix. Votes: 3

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town. Votes: 3

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. Votes: 3

Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A. Votes: 3

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri. Votes: 3

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished. Votes: 3

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect. Votes: 3

In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.' Votes: 3

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock. Votes: 3

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do. Votes: 3

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya. Votes: 3

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different. Votes: 3

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about. Votes: 3

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way. Votes: 3

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. Votes: 3

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it. Votes: 3

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public. Votes: 3

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big. Votes: 3

Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian. Votes: 3

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers. Votes: 3

history records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ... Votes: 3

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer. Votes: 3

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think. Votes: 3

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets. Votes: 3

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. Votes: 3

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby. Votes: 3

When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton of films. Votes: 3

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it. Votes: 3

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town. Votes: 3

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing. Votes: 3

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite Votes: 3

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite. Votes: 3

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie. Votes: 3

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns. Votes: 3

There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball. Votes: 3

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that. Votes: 3

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. Votes: 3

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it. Votes: 3

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going. Votes: 3

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular. Votes: 3

As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to. Votes: 3

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. Votes: 3

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all. Votes: 3

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts." Votes: 3

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher. Votes: 3

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going. Votes: 3

Who you looking forWhat is his nameyou can prob'ly find himat the football gameit's a small townyou know what I meanit's a small town, sonand we all support the team Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. Votes: 3

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Votes: 3

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. Votes: 3

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley, Votes: 3

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are. Votes: 3

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football. Votes: 3

It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon. Votes: 3

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other. Votes: 3

Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it's the heartland of America. It's a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it's beginning to pass. Votes: 3

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person. Votes: 3

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. Votes: 3

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief. Votes: 3

These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them. Votes: 3

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different. Votes: 3

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one. Votes: 3

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian. Votes: 3

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population. Votes: 3

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying. Votes: 3

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop. Votes: 3

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day. Votes: 3

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. Votes: 3

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it. Votes: 3

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up. Votes: 3

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family. Votes: 3

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people. Votes: 3

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. Votes: 3

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! Votes: 3

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. Votes: 3

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave. Votes: 3

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh. Votes: 3

Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure. Votes: 3

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel. Votes: 3

I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry. Votes: 3

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel. Votes: 3

I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. Votes: 3

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me. Votes: 3

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. Votes: 3

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave. Votes: 3

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood. Votes: 3

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well? Votes: 3

Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did. Votes: 3

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial. Votes: 3

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. Votes: 3

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard. Votes: 3

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did. Votes: 3

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. Votes: 3

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives. Votes: 3

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction. Votes: 3

I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery. Votes: 3

I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible. Votes: 3

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged. Votes: 3

I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them. Votes: 3

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that. Votes: 3

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future Votes: 3

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. Votes: 3

The bad thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. The good thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. During times of trouble, the support system was massive. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time. Votes: 3

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave. Votes: 3

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) Votes: 3

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany. Votes: 3

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. Votes: 3

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness. Votes: 3

We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night. Votes: 3

I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains. Votes: 3

Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night. Votes: 3

Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me. Votes: 3

One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me. Votes: 3

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. Votes: 3

'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me. Votes: 3

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place. Votes: 3

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to. Votes: 3

Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents. Votes: 3

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs. Votes: 3

Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. Votes: 3

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers. Votes: 3

Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese. Votes: 3

Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun. Votes: 3

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know. Votes: 3

A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out. Votes: 3

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well. Votes: 3

I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing. Votes: 3

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance. Votes: 3

When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now. Votes: 3

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance. Votes: 3

I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that. Votes: 3

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down. Votes: 3

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania. Votes: 3

After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people. Votes: 3

Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options. Votes: 3

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids. Votes: 3

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor. Votes: 3

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find. Votes: 3

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing. Votes: 3

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan. Votes: 3

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' Votes: 3

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? Votes: 3

I was always übersexual...I was always wearing the smallest clothes I could find. I would go to the mall like that "” in a short, short skirt and a giant wedge heel. That's what you do when you're a teenage girl in a small town. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents. Votes: 3

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women. Votes: 3

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me. Votes: 3

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years. Votes: 3

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere. Votes: 3

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. Votes: 3

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters. Votes: 3

The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's. Votes: 3

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world. Votes: 3

Jamestown was a very small town and I was thrilled to be there. It was interesting at first be adapting to the pro ball life style of being on the road alot and having a game almost every day but once I got use to it everything felt right. Votes: 3

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. Votes: 3

I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy. Votes: 3

To sit on the front steps "” whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city "” and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color. Votes: 3

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. Votes: 3

Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler. Votes: 3

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies. Votes: 3

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others. Votes: 3

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn't really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old. Votes: 3

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods. Votes: 3

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s. Votes: 3

When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black people before, that's a dramatic change. I'm not sure how much the people in the north are acknowledging that this is a permanent phenomenon, that it is going to change the social fabric. Votes: 3

My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture. Votes: 3

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. Votes: 3

[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation. Votes: 3

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories. Votes: 3

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life. Votes: 3

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too. Votes: 3

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.' Votes: 3

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me. Votes: 3

I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world. Votes: 3

As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room. Votes: 3

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside. Votes: 3

I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction. Votes: 3

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people." Votes: 3

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in choirs and did singing competitions. I also did a whole lot of theater; I did high school, and then I started doing some community theater. I decided that was the kind of thing I wanted to study in college. Votes: 3

Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that's what I know and what I'm comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that. Votes: 3

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform. Votes: 3

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year. Votes: 3

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table. Votes: 3

It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California. Votes: 3

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist. Votes: 3

I am a small-town girl. Votes: 2

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. Votes: 2

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me. Votes: 2

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. Votes: 2

Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally. Votes: 2

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. Votes: 2

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. Votes: 2

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. Votes: 0

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town. Votes: 0

Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character. Votes: 0

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different. Votes: 0

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. Votes: 0

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names. Votes: 0

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical, Votes: 0

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment. Votes: 0

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies. Votes: 0

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. Votes: 0

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts. Votes: 0

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill. Votes: 0

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. Votes: 0

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America. Votes: 0

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. Votes: 0

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper. Votes: 0

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it. Votes: 0

Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend! Votes: 0

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop. Votes: 0

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. Votes: 0

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. Votes: 0

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. Votes: 0

My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people. Votes: 0

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. Votes: 0

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.' Votes: 0

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American. Votes: 0

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. Votes: 0

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. Votes: 0

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound. Votes: 0

I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office. Votes: 0

I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town. Votes: 0

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents! Votes: 0

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers. Votes: 0

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. Votes: 0

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret. Votes: 0

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. Votes: 0

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America. Votes: 0

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark. Votes: 0

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. Votes: 0

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town. Votes: 0

People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts. Votes: 0

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them. Votes: 0

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst. Votes: 0

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to. Votes: 0

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. Votes: 0

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models. Votes: 0

I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA. Votes: 0