Towns Quotes
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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
— Francis Parkman
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.
— Neil Gaiman
I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]
— Leona Lewis
All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.
— Haruki Murakami
Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I was born in a Negro town.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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
Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.
— John Waters
If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
— Thomas Pynchon
Naodyma isn't exactly a one-temple town, you know.
— Andrew Ashling
She loved so much misteries tha she became one
— John Green
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
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
— John Green
Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.
— Gregory Peck
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
— Ronald J. Garan Jr.
I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit.
— John Green
forever is composed of nows
— John Green
Small towns are best for spending Christmas, I think. They catch the mood quicker and change and come alive under its spell.
— Truman Capote
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
— Charles Baudelaire
It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)
— John Green
What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.
— Mila Kunis
We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
— Fennel Hudson
I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.
— GG Allin
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
— Lalita Tademy
Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks - saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!
— Patricia Heaton
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
— James Thurber
In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.
— Tyrese Gibson
I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,
— Landon Liboiron
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
— Agatha Christie
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
— Linda Hogan
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
— Lenny Bruce
I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.
— John Green
You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
— Anthony Bourdain
In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
— Ethel Waters
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
— George Mason
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
— Susumu Tonegawa
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.
— Jason Flemyng
Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
— Christopher Fowler
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
Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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
My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.
— John Dyer
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
New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.
— Robert Frost
Here, just below the Earth's summit, there are towns and villages, a tangle of human lives, in the shadow of Arctic eschatology.
— Sarah Moss
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
— Harland Miller
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
— Pierre Salinger
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
— Henry David Thoreau
We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.
— Jermaine O'Neal
We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.
— Narendra Modi
No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.
— William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
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
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
— Jacob Zuma
Every town has an Elm Street.
— Michael De Luca
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
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
— Tom Waits
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
On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
— John Green
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.
— Margaret Mead
I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.
— John Green
That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.
— John Green
I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
— Annie Dillard
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
— Russel Honore
I spy with my little eye a great story.
— John Green
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,
— Peter Arnett
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
— Karin Slaughter
Wink? she thinks. Where the fuck is Wink?
— Robert Jackson Bennett
There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.
— Carl Douglas