Top 1200 Little Towns Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

I love most New England towns.

We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

The Kings played out of the Memorial Community Centre, an old wooden barn like you'd see in other Prairie towns. It was built after World War II and the Kings were the biggest thing in town. The Memorial was packed for every game - maybe 3,000 when we'd play the Kenora Muskies or other rival towns. It seemed like everyone in town came out to games.

I´ve square danced twice in towns you haven´t even heard of!

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.

Small towns are so rich.

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.

A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

Even coming from small towns, the biggest dreams are possible.

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more conscious and reading local message boards before going to certain towns, just to see if people were making bullshit idle threats on the Internet.

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.