Town Quotes

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

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

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.