Town Quotes

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not... my town.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.