Southern Small Town Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.

Kelley Armstrong

#3. Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

David Letterman

#4. Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

Steve Maraboli

#5. In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.

Bill Moyers

#6. Hollywood wives. The younger generation.

Jackie Collins

#7. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#8. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

Kellie Elmore

#9. It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

Harper Lee

#10. Vidalia, open those eyes and look at me. As with all things, we do this together, Darlin'.

Julia Mills

#11. Ryn smirked at Fain. "That's my mom. Now you know why I'm still single."

Hermione passed an irritated glare at her son.

He gave her a charming wink. "Just like you, Mom. Independently owned and operated.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella.

Kellie Elmore

#13. I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

Tony Kushner

#14. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

#15. When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Charles Olson

#16. Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

Deborah Blake

#17. I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

Maurice Blanchot

#18. Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.

Various