Growing Up In A Small Town Quotes:

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

- Brandon Routh

topic: Growing Up, Growing, Towns, Growing Up In A Small Town

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

- Herschel Walker

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Keys, Growing Up In A Small Town

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.

- Herschel Walker

topic: Sports, Dream, Atlanta, Growing Up In A Small Town

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

- Chris Crutcher

source: Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

topic: Real, Thinking, Knowing, Growing Up In A Small Town, Mockingbird

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

- Bill Pullman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1996.

topic: New York, Upstate New York, Towns, Growing Up In A Small Town

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people

- Verne Troyer

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

topic: Class, People, Michigan, Graduating Class, Growing Up In A Small Town

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

- Annie Baker

topic: Growing Up, Writing, Thinking, Growing Up In A Small Town

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

- Robert Osborne

topic: New York, Growing Up, Kids, Washington State, Growing Up In A Small Town

It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

- Eliza Coupe

topic: Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend, Leonardo, Hampshire

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

- Ally Carter

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Teenage, Teenage Girl, Growing Up In A Small Town

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

- Lou Reed

source: Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.333, Da Capo Press

topic: Growing Up, Hate, Use, Growing Up In A Small Town

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

- Paul Rust

topic: Growing Up, Catholic, Three, Growing Up In A Small Town