Quotes About Hometowns

#1. Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

John F. Kerry

#2. I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who was your next door neighbor you were playing with, who your girlfriend was. It's always something very specific.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Nina Easton

#4. Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Tadashi Yanai

#5. We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

Dan Quayle

#7. Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#8. I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Derek Blasberg

#9. We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to ... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.

Kevin A. Ford

#10. All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.

Chris Colfer

#11. Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. And you shall reap them all before it's night! Live life so well!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. He is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain ...

Damon Galgut

#13. Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

James A. Leach

#14. I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

Adam Driver

#15. If forgive me would make up for everything then we wouldn't need hell!

Yoshiki Nakamura