Top 1200 Small Towns Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

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

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

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

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

Small towns are so rich.

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

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.

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Those who live in small towns definitely are the ones who have so much of apnapan, as compared to the cold-hearted people in metros such as Delhi or Mumbai.

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

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.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

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

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

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns who can't even afford the rent in their cities anymore because costs are going so high.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

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

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

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

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

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

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

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

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

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 met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There's a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than being located in the Appalachian coalfields, are on the moon.

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

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.

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

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

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

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

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

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

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

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

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.