Top 637 Towns Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.
Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.
Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.
All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.
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I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
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.
Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
Homosexual advocates try to argue that businesses are leery of locating in towns that aren't friendly to homosexuals. I believe the opposite is truer.
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.
In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.
Now in a lot of rural towns in Kentucky, the school system is the heartbeat of the community, not to mention one of the major employers.
I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.
There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.
Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.
I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
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.
