Towns Quotes - Page 8

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

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

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

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.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.