Townspeople Quotes

#1. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

E.W. Howe

#2. I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

William Carlos Williams

#3. It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

Don DeLillo

#4. Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#5. The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis ... surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

H.L. Mencken

#6. That the fighting was done, townspeople began to flood out of alleys and recesses, timidly making for the gate and - presumably - safety.

Robert Jordan

#7. If only her problems were as simple as dealing with a handful of townspeople with pitchforks...

Wen Spencer

#8. The townspeople took the prince for dead
When he never returned with the dragon's head
When with her, he stayed
She thought he'd be too afraid
But he loved her too much instead.

Jess C. Scott

#9. People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

George William Russell

#10. In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#11. The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

James Welch

#12. I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

Kami Garcia

#13. I had withdrawn from the townspeople in as many ways as possible, thinking my isolation would be less painful if it came on my own terms.

Erika Robuck

#14. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.

George S. Clason

#15. In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

Willa Cather

#16. King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden's usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn't growing a brain.

Kristin Cashore

#17. Coldiron is concerned about the townspeople not being priced out of chili dogs, but willing to condone dosing religious protesters, however repellant, with something that turns them into homicidal erotomaniacs?

William Gibson

#18. Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.

Anthony Doerr

#19. When the train stopped the local townspeople along the way offered us coffee and sandwiches. It gave you a good feeling, seeing them come out to the train. These were the people we would be fighting for.

Craig Siegel

#20. I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Lucy Powell

#21. Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Hugh Nibley

#22. You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

Robert Anthony

#23. I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Adam Sandler

#24. We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Baba Kalyani

#25. I think it's important to be authentic but also be able to have fun and not be overly controlling or insecure. Dating is just one of those things where it's kind of when you know, you know. I have been really busy with my career and sometimes I find it hard to juggle the two.

Nolan Gerard Funk

#26. As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Karl Marx

#27. I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

John Zerzan

#28. It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh ... Robert Schumann has been mentioned ... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath ... some of them with rather grim ends.

Stephen Fry

#29. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

Hermann Hesse

#30. Nothing so precious as memory, nothing so useless.

Isaac Adamson