Little Towns Quotes

#1. To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

Bill Callahan

#2. In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

Willa Cather

#3. These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

Joe Manganiello

#5. When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee.

Doug Stanhope

#6. Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#7. When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

Norman Rockwell

#8. The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew.

Erika Christensen

#9. Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

George Sand

#10. I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and ... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

Johnny Gimble

#11. The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

Hilaire Belloc

#12. I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on top of the wind. I would be above everything, over the little towns clinging to the highway. I would be a part of everything.

Karen Foxlee

#13. This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind. That was all London was beyond its center, an agglomeration of dull little towns. She made a resolution never to live in any of them.

Ian McEwan

#14. I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

Kathleen Robertson

#15. Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them. The

Thomas Hardy

#16. Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Toni Morrison

#17. I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.

Scarlett Johansson

#18. Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

Ralph Bellamy

#19. It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Hunter S. Thompson

#20. The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

John Hancock

#21. There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

Margaret Craven

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

Charles Kuralt

#23. There's a destination,a little up the road. From the habitations and the towns we know. A place we saw the lights turn low. The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow

Beck

#24. In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns
Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

John Grisham

#25. I spy with my little eye a great story.

John Green

#26. A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Rachel Field

#27. We are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.

Steven Millhauser

#28. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Kin Hubbard

#29. So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

Taylor Swift

#30. Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#31. I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

G.W. Bailey

#32. By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

William Herschel

#33. We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

Elmer L. Towns

#34. They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#35. Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

Dave Chappelle

#36. Just answer the questions so I can get the fuck out of this backwards shithole before I start wanting to root a goat and marry my own brother.

JD Nixon

#37. It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

Ralph Nader

#38. Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

Marie Dressler

#39. Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.

Pauly Shore

#40. One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

Connie Sellecca

#41. A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.

Raymond T. McNally

#42. The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

Steve Goodier

#43. I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

John Malkovich