Trailer Park Quotes:

Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.

- Skip Bertman

topic: Parks, Trailers, Trailer Park

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Rooms, Parks, Internet, Trailer Park

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

- Kid Rock

topic: Mom, Dad, Class, Trailer Park

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

- Billy Graham

source: Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

topic: Running, Thinking, Government, Trailer Park

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

- Matthew McConaughey

topic: Doors, Parks, Hello, Trailer Park

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

- Hilary Swank

topic: Parks, Grew Up, Trailers, Trailer Park

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

- Larry the Cable Guy

source: "FIctional character: Mater (voice)". "Cars" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: Parks, Tornadoes, Trailers, Trailer Park, Funny Redneck

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

- Hilary Swank

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Dream, Oscars, Trailer Park, Just A Girl

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Soul, Parks, Internet, Trailers, Trailer Park

If you love something, set it free.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Love, Modern Family, Getting Back Together, If You Love Someone, Jonathan Seagull

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

- James Patterson

source: James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.206, Random House

topic: Let It Go, Love Coming Back, Letting Things Go, Love And Letting Go, Trailer Park

I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Brother, Kids, Gay, Multiple Personalities, Trailer Park

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet.

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Girl, Rap, White, Trailers, Trailer Park

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

topic: Baby, Angel, Parks, Trailer Park, Cherubs

When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

- Marin Ireland

topic: Girlfriend, People, Trying, Trailer Park

I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.” This is how things were done in the trailer park.

- Kate Madison

topic: Father, White, Black, Trailer Park

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

- Elizabeth Neel

source: Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

topic: Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs, Trailer Park, Huge Numbers

All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Lost Love, Light, People, Gin And Tonic, Trailers

If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

- Mel White

topic: Girl, Mother, Growing Up, Inspectors, Curly Hair

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

- Neal Stephenson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Running, People, Interesting, Backdrop, Trailer Park

I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

- Daniel Handler

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

topic: Children, Drinking, Bridges, Liam, Burlesque

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.

- Carlos Mencia

topic: Moving, Compassion, People, Trailer Park

To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

- Allison Glock

topic: Girl, Mom, School, Southern Women, Sweatpants

Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them.

- Lenny Bruce

topic: Cake, White, Black, Limes, White Bread

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

- Linwood Barclay

topic: Country, Book, Parent, Connecticut, Trailers

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

- Penelope Spheeris

source: "The Punk Director: Penelope Spheeris Revisits Her Decline of Western Civilization Trilogy". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2015.

topic: Mother, People, Wish, Trailer Park, Barmaids

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

- Jennifer Echols

source: Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dog, Boys, Practice, Trailer Park

To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it's just so powerful, so raw - and I know how hard that is to create. It's very deceptive. It's like a Dardenne brothers film - it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it's incredibly difficult to do that.

- John Vanderslice

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Brother, Powerful, People, Deceptive, Trailer Park

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

- Cecily McMillan

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Mother, Struggle, Kids, Trailer Park

All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks.

- Tod Goldberg

topic: Reality, Bullshit, Guy, Ponzi Scheme, Trailer Park

I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.

- Michael J. Silverstein

topic: Real, Home, Average, Trailer Park, Privileged Life