Quotes About Living In A Small Town

#1. Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

Nick Nolte

#2. Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!

Mallika Nawal

#3. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. - ANONYMOUS

Laura Ruby

#4. Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Doris Lessing

#5. My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

Robert Osborne

#6. Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

Larry The Cable Guy

#7. The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Doris Lessing

#8. From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

#9. What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

Nancy Carell

#10. One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Anna Nicole Smith

#11. 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

#12. Living in a small town ... is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.

Joyce Dennys

#13. The bad thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. The good thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. During times of trouble, the support system was massive.

Linda Howard

#14. The Lord takes raw materials, shapes them and refines them.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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

Sarah Palin

#16. It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See

Winston S. Churchill

#17. I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

George J. Mitchell

#18. To sit on the front steps - whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city - and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

Harvey Milk

#19. I am more able to recognize when my mind has gotten itself into trouble and increasingly eager to mobilize the energy to rescue it. Concentration and mindfulness, as remedies to confusion, are either self-activating ... or at least reasonably available remedies to confusion. [pp. 17-18]

Sylvia Boorstein

#20. 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

#21. An act of terrorism
is not an ideology,
nor religion.
It is the lack of hope,
of opportunity
and of love.
When there is no recourse,
no other way
there is only insurrection.
Understanding, compassion
and respect for all life
is what will save us all.

Mahima Martel

#22. Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

Bruce Willis

#23. Nothing good ever comes without a price.

Larry McMurtry

#24. You okay?" He moved past her into the kitchen and deposited his beer bottle in the sink. "You're all flushed."
"I'm fine," she said a little too quickly. "It's hot in here, that's all."
Oh sure. It was a little hot anywhere he was. The kitchen ... the living room ... the polar ice caps ...

Sara Humphreys

#25. I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

Halsey

#26. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#27. I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

Patty Duke

#28. I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

Fortune Feimster

#29. Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.

Albert H. Morehead

#30. Someone else's opinion of me- does not change my opinion of me.

Bill Bartmann

#31. Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, took the midnight train going anywhere ...
Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit, took the midnight train going anywhere ...

Journey

#32. With proper governance, life will improve for all.

Benigno Aquino III

#33. Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

Lilian Katz

#34. I finally figured out how hard the battle between your love for me and your love for art, your future, and your career must've been. It just hurts to know art won, is all." ~Gage

Shanora Williams

#35. It was beginning to dawn on her that she had traveled so long, so perfectly, that it was difficult to conceive of another kind of life. It was difficult to imagine stopping, but stopping as imminent.

Emily St. John Mandel

#36. Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

Frances Mayes

#37. 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

#38. Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Susan Orlean