Small Towns Quotes
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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.
— Jim Gaffigan
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
— Garrison Keillor
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
— Bob Cousy
The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they're going to have any chance in the world.
— Fredrik Backman
Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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 ...
— Gladys Taber
Childhood is the small town everyone came from.
— Garrison Keillor
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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.
— Alice Munro
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
— Charles Kuralt
I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.
— Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
Naodyma isn't exactly a one-temple town, you know.
— Andrew Ashling
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
— Daniel Woodrell
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.
— Bill Kurtis
A small town has as many eyes as a fly
— Sonya Hartnett
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.
— Clay Guida
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.
— Laurie Notaro
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
— Ronald J. Garan Jr.
Small towns are best for spending Christmas, I think. They catch the mood quicker and change and come alive under its spell.
— Truman Capote
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
— David Burnett
It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
Hardly anyone moved to Coot Lake unless they had some kind of tie to the community. It wasn't like Coot Lake was on the Most Scenic Small Towns list.
— Anonymous
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
— Sherman Alexie
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
— Ellen Gilchrist
My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people.
— Birdy
In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
— Anne Boleyn
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.
— Mark Twain
Well, nothing ever ends well for crazy people in small towns.,
— Molly D. Campbell
The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy
— John Irving
There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.
— Molly Harper
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
— Kacey Musgraves
There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.
— Andie MacDowell
Be nice. (The world is a small town.)
— Austin Kleon
I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.
— Joan Rivers
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
— Stendhal
Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.
— Wayne Knight
All my friends are so small town.
— John Mellencamp
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
— Agatha Christie
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
— Lenny Bruce
In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
— George Clooney
(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.
— Beryl Markham
A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
— Sonya Hartnett
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
— Immanuel Kant
I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,
— Landon Liboiron
Wink? she thinks. Where the fuck is Wink?
— Robert Jackson Bennett
It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.
— Peter Straub
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.
— Paul Harvey
Hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.'
'In small towns news travel at the speed of boredom'. — Carlos Luiz Zafon
'In small towns news travel at the speed of boredom'. — Carlos Luiz Zafon
But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don't know what they're talking about.
— Don Roff
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
— Ellen Gilchrist
Small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.
— Stephen King
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.
— Larry The Cable Guy
Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour
appearing in small Southern towns
in front of handfuls of hillbillies. — Bill Hicks
appearing in small Southern towns
in front of handfuls of hillbillies. — Bill Hicks
I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.
— Jacob Lofland
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.
— Champ Bailey
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
— Estelle Parsons
When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.
— Tom Brokaw
I thought people in small towns were supposed to be nice, not act like the son of Satan.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
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.
— Victor Hugo
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
— Knute Nelson