Top 82 Quotes About Your Hometown
#1. 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
#2. There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.
Joseph Dougherty
#3. If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.
Osman Baydemir
#4. It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
Pete Seeger
#5. Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
Jodelle Ferland
#6. Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.
Yoko Ono
#7. Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.
Warren Buffett
#8. I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.
Debra Messing
#9. It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
Buddy Rice
#10. If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.
John Krasinski
#11. 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
#12. It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
Daryl Hannah
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. It's just really hard to remember your hometown isn't the only place in the world
Katie Cotugno
#16. You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
Robert Breault
#17. Home cooking is anything you buy in your hometown.
Mary McLeary
#18. (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
#19. It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
Jason Aldean
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
Yao Ming
#24. I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
Rachel Bloom
#25. I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!
George Benson
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.
Stephanie Miller
#34. 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
#35. My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.
Carrie Underwood
#36. My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my whole life.
Toni Trucks
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.
Princess Superstar
#40. 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
#41. I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Michael Eric Dyson
#42. 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
#43. I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.
Sue Monk Kidd
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#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. When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
Masaharu Morimoto
#49. Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take ... matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business or hometown. Everything you do matters to all of us forever.
Andy Andrews
#50. It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
Reba McEntire
#51. Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.
Garrett Hedlund
#52. For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.
Katharine Graham
#53. 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
#54. When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Dolly Parton
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
Fred Allen
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
Aleksandar Hemon
#62. 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
#63. Any city in any country, including my own hometown, was to me just another place where I might live or might not live.
Kurt Vonnegut
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley
#67. Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
Rebecca Wells
#68. In my hometown, the sky seemed endless ... but there was nothing to see.
Ryohgo Narita
#69. 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
#70. My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
Ang Lee
#71. You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.
Gao Xingjian
#72. It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.
Robert Kirkman
#73. Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.
Fred Willard
#74. I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
Li Bingbing
#75. If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.
Agnieszka Radwanska
#76. I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.
Columba Bush
#77. I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
Maud Adams
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
Cheryl James
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