Simple Town Quotes

#1. Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#2. Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.

James Dashner

#3. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

Bruce Springsteen

#4. She wore a simple purple long-sleeved turtleneck, but streaks of white across her chest - flour perhaps? - distracted him, made him want to volunteer for cleanup duty.

Melissa McClone

#5. The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just another part of it.

Brenna Yovanoff

#6. Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.

Justin Moore

#7. For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories ... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. Pleasnt tilted his head curiously. "Scaramouch? Scaramouch Van Dreg? Is that you?"
Scaramouch smiled nastily. "Oh yes. You have fallen into the clutches of your deadliest enemy."
"What are you doing here?

Derek Landy

#9. Simple as that," said Nina. "Did you know I'm next in line for the Fjerdan throne? They call me Princess Ilse of Engelsberg." "There is no princess of Engelsberg," said Matthias. "It's a fishing town." Nina shrugged. "If we're going to lie to ourselves, we might as well be grand about it.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.

Loraine Hutchins

#12. My parents are very humble people who have simple lives ... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

Liu Wen

#13. The basics of running this town are very simple. All you need to do is reward those with something to offer, and the way to recognize them is that they can do something you can't; it's that simple. And when you identify them, you protect them with the meanest bastards you can find.

Matt Mayr

#14. The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.

Mario Cuomo

#15. In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.

Elizabeth Goudge

#16. Your tears are never invisible
there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel
he hated it with what he hoped was his soul.

Barry Lyga

#19. About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work.

Paul LePage

#20. I'm going back to sleep,' she said, lying back down. 'I shall see if there's anyone interesting asleep in America.'
'That seems rather like a contradiction in terms, ma'am.'
'God, you're such a snob.

Daniel O'Malley

#21. It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

William Jackson

#22. I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

Keri Hulme

#23. I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

Jim Burke

#24. In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

Will Rogers

#25. He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.

Jodi Picoult

#26. In the river. With James. Swimming

Suzanne Young

#27. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.

James Joyce

#28. I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Jay Parini

#29. Kane wondered if any man in her life had really noticed how beautiful she was.

Dannika Dark