Quotes About Life In Small Towns

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

Ellen Gilchrist

#2. She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

Anna Quindlen

#3. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Agatha Christie

#4. 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

#5. I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

Darren Star

#6. 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.

Ed Koch

#7. A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Sarah Palin

#9. I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,

Landon Liboiron

#10. 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.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. These factors include things like the unemployment rate, interest rates, the dollar's strength in the currency market, petroleum prices, and consumers' disposable income. Those

Marc Cosentino

#12. It wasn't as if she'd thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn't always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Shannon Celebi

#13. 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.

Lesley Gore

#14. Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters, that no member of their community could hide such dark desires. Once upon a time, she'd lived in one.
And the monster there had ripped her life apart.

Elizabeth Heiter

#15. 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.

Bob Taft

#16. And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening

Phil Volatile

#17. 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.

Kent Haruf

#18. The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

Sarah Dessen

#19. I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

Daniel Woodrell

#20. Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Epicurus

#21. 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.

Edward Abbey

#22. 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

#23. In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#24. 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.

Nicholas Sparks