Quotes About The Hometown

#1. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Robert Benchley

#3. Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#5. This world is the hometown of our nativity; we live here among our friends, among our enemies, who are many time, (too often, only God knows) the snares of justice. Therefore, our God thinks it fit to remove us from our native soul, before he employs us in that state-business of judgment.

Daniel Cawdrey

#6. My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

Faith Ford

#7. The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Timothy Noah

#8. We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Clementine Paddleford

#9. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Tayari Jones

#10. When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Dolly Parton

#11. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

John Gould

#12. I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers.

Matt Kemp

#13. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Fred Allen

#14. My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

Sarah Dessen

#15. In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

Chris Matthews

#16. It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns - but, you're playing for all the people you knew in high school, so it causes no small degree of panic in my mind.

Nellie McKay

#17. I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Patton Oswalt

#18. Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

Bruce Springsteen

#19. It's just really hard to remember your hometown isn't the only place in the world

Katie Cotugno

#20. I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.

Scotty McCreery

#21. I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

Katie Price

#22. Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.

Collis Decoteau

#23. My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Ang Lee

#24. You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

Gao Xingjian

#25. It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.

Robert Kirkman

#26. Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

Fred Willard

#27. I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

Li Bingbing

#28. I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

Jill Scott

#29. the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!" This was in New York City. In a room full of Jewish sports fans. I don't even really like baseball that much! I have problems.

Mindy Kaling

#30. Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

William Grimes

#31. In my hometown, the sky seemed endless ... but there was nothing to see.

Ryohgo Narita

#32. I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.

Drew Goddard

#33. I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Rick Danko

#34. (On 'The Story Of Tonight (Reprise)')

Tommy Kail and I always described this scene as "When your hometown friends are at the party with your college friends.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#35. As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

Ruby Wax

#36. Many of the novelists I admire never left their hometown. Look at Flannery O'Connor. So many of the great Russians never left Russia. Shakespeare never left England. The list goes on.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#37. I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

Eleanor Tomlinson

#38. I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

Joe Manganiello

#39. I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

Olivia Newton-John

#40. The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

Margaret Atwood

#41. I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

Walter Payton

#42. There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#43. Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Matt Cameron

#44. Once, while living in New York City in the early 2000s, I was asked to leave a sports bar because the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!

Mindy Kaling

#45. He pulled the shade, climbed into bed, thought of the Replacements, a band from his hometown singing about needing a job and needing a girl. Rodney needed both. But he needed the job to get the girl. And he needed ambition to get either.

Steve Rushin

#46. When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

Audra McDonald

#47. You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

#48. I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.

Kevin A. Ford

#49. I feel like, If I would have lived in my hometown, I probably would have gotten in a lot more trouble. I was just in places where I could have gotten in trouble. I skateboarded a lot, just getting into the wrong stuff. I could've just hung out with the wrong friends.

Justin Bieber

#50. Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

Olivia Newton-John

#51. Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

Alice Hoffman

#52. We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

Drew Bledsoe

#53. I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.

Jewel

#54. Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

Jonathan Carroll

#55. I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.

LeBron James

#56. I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

Jenna Blum

#57. When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.

Lee Brice

#58. I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#59. Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Ryan Holmes

#60. I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Salman Rushdie

#61. I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.

Kellie Pickler

#62. I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.'

Michael Nutter

#63. There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what's happening on the court.

Marv Albert

#64. The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

Natalia Vodianova

#65. That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

Mayer Hawthorne

#66. I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

Daniel Boulud

#67. I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

Taylor Swift

#68. I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

Paul Prudhomme

#69. Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Tim O'Brien

#70. I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#71. People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.

Mary Karr

#72. It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

Diana Krall

#73. I could leave here and return to my hometown, but I would not return as the person I was when I left,' he explained. 'I would not recognize anyone. And no one would recognize me.

Patrick DeWitt

#74. For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Joseph Campbell

#75. My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Brad D. Smith

#76. John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

Carl Bernstein

#77. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

#78. It said, "Dad Calling," and his greeting was a shouted, "I didn't do two tours with the Marines only for my hometown to close down the library because of nudie boobies!

Kristen Ashley

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

Dan Quayle

#80. The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

Richard Dawson

#81. Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.

Gaby Sanchez

#82. When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

Gemma Arterton

#83. I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#84. There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

Richard Hell

#85. Obviously it took much longer to come here than to go to Nagoya, but he felt no different that when he'd gone back to his hometown. Only the currency in his wallet had changed.

Haruki Murakami

#86. Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century
the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp
the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

Walt Disney

#87. How do I know I'm a good writer? Every single time I arrive or leave my hometown, I'm the only passenger always being checked for drugs.

Daniel Marques

#88. It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Hermann Hesse

#89. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

#90. Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.

Jay Leno

#91. I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

Dean Winters

#92. I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

LeBron James

#93. I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

B.B. King

#94. Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.

V.J. Campilan

#95. While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#96. The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

Ed Asner

#97. Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Michael Moore

#98. The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

Gary Kovacs

#99. No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

Alexandra Maria Lara

#100. Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.

Danielle Bradbery