Quotes and Sayings About Towns
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
-- Aaron Paul -
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.
-- Abbi Glines -
In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
-- Al Yankovic -
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
-- Alan Jackson -
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
-- Alan Rickman -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
-- Alison Gopnik -
There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.
-- Andie MacDowell -
Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
-- Andy Rooney -
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
-- Arnold Rothstein -
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
-- Art Linkletter -
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
-- Arthur Erickson -
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
-- Bea Arthur -
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.
-- Beau Bridges -
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
-- Ben Vereen -
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
-- Bess Streeter Aldrich
