Top 100 Small Town Quotes
#1. I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.
Lou Barletta
#2. 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
#3. The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.
Edna Ferber
#4. That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.
Anne-Marie Duff
#5. 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
#6. I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Alton Brown
#7. There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Terry Teachout
#8. I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.
Mike Pence
#9. Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Esther Williams
#10. If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
Herschel Walker
#11. I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
Mira Nair
#12. Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.
Tim O'Brien
#13. I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
Robin S. Sharma
#14. 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
#15. I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
Mark Indelicato
#16. When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.
Harvey Gantt
#17. Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
David Lee
#18. Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.
Helen Slavin
#19. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.
Brian Joyce
#20. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right
Bruce Springsteen
#21. As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.
Ann Brashares
#22. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W.G. Sebald
#23. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
Sarah Palin
#24. In those days, at least in my small town, parents didn't seem to worry so much about what their kids were doing as long as they made it home in time for dinner.
K. Martin Beckner
#25. I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
Brandi Carlile
#26. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#27. I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
Rachel McAdams
#28. I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
Baltasar Kormakur
#29. Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond
#30. I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
Warren Christopher
#31. I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,
Landon Liboiron
#32. I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.
Mary Meeker
#33. There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
Cress Williams
#34. 'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.
Lennon Parham
#35. My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
Roald Dahl
#36. There is only one good thing about small town
You know that you want to get out
Lou Reed
#37. 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
#38. Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.
Paul Rust
#39. As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.
Jodi Picoult
#40. I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
Aaron Paul
#41. My background is a small town with no movie theater. So ... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.
Franka Potente
#42. Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
Kate Smith
#43. As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.
Leonard Boswell
#45. I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
Leon Krier
#46. We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
Jimmy Wales
#47. The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
Will Rogers
#48. Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
James Bay
#49. When you grew up in a small town ... obscurity was a luxury that didn't exist.
Katie Ganshert
#50. I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
Anne Boleyn
#51. One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
Anna Nicole Smith
#52. I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn't really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old.
Seinabo Sey
#53. I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.
Kelli O'Hara
#54. As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland took a stand: 'We give this solemn warning to Kaiser Wilhelm: The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on you.
Robert Hutton
#55. I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
Karin Slaughter
#56. I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
Nelson Algren
#57. Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
Herschel Walker
#58. Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.
Mark Salling
#59. Who can justify the expense of a six-lane highway through the middle of a small town that anticipates growth? Who would want such a road through their town?
Robert C. Martin
#60. 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
#61. You may live in a small town, but that doesn't mean you have to get afflicted with one of the deadliest STD's - small town disease, which symptoms are repetitive droid-like behavior and a lack and shortage mentality
Robert J. Braathe
#62. Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.
Scott Turow
#63. Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
Laura Miller
#64. I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
Kate Bosworth
#65. A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
Sonya Hartnett
#66. I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
Gerry Schwartz
#67. These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
Caroline Dhavernas
#68. 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
#69. I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.
Shaun Fleming
#70. My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.
James Vincent McMorrow
#71. I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.
Famke Janssen
#73. San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.
Dave Matthews
#75. I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
Chris Hadfield
#76. But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.
Carrie Underwood
#77. I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Anurag Kashyap
#78. People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.
Cliff Curtis
#79. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
Terry Pratchett
#80. Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Anthony Foxx
#81. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
James Gleick
#82. If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.
James Altucher
#83. Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts
she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#84. A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker
#85. The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante
#86. I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
Jeremy Renner
#87. I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey
#88. In 1958, they [Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter] lived in the small town of Central Point, Virginia, where people every shade from the color of chamomile tea to summer midnight made their homes.
Selina Alko
#89. There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.
George Carlin
#90. I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
Josh Lucas
#91. 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.
Daniella Alonso
#92. My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher
#93. I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
Alison Moyet
#94. As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.
Anika Noni Rose
#95. I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.
Molly Parker
#96. I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
John Corey Whaley
#97. I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
Jerry Hall
#98. Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
Jayma Mays
#99. My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
Stacy Schiff
#100. 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
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