I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
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.
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
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.
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.
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.
L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.
My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.
Goodbye,
you who are, for me, the postmarks again
of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins,
Hornell--
their loneliness
given away in poems, only their solitude kept.
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.
If Connecticut is haunted then New Haven is the weirdest of the towns that is haunted.
Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.
Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs, -
To the silent wilderness,
Where the soul need not repress
Its music.
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.
I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.
No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
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.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.
We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.
The Peckman River Basin has frequently flooded, and for more than a generation, the towns of Little Falls and Woodland Park have faced these challenges largely on their own.
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
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.
Learning English in Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns places the person ahead of the curve. I'm sorry to say but that's the reality.
Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
I did a year and a half of independent wrestling before I got into the WWE. It was nothing really. I didn't make the towns. I don't even say I was an indy wrestler.
'Service Wali Bahu,' like most other serials, cater to women audiences and is aimed at smaller towns where people are home by sunset.
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
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