Home Town Quotes:

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

- Maureen Daly

topic: Mother, Home, Talking, Home Town

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On

- Tom Waits

source: Song: Hold On, Album: Mule Variations

topic: Song, Home, Records, Home Town

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Home, Thinking, World, Sissy, Home Town

I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town

- Maisie Williams

topic: Home, Doctors, Waiting, British Culture, Home Town

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

- Jane Wilson-Howarth

source: Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.370, Bradt Travel Guides

topic: Home, Chinese, Delight, Home Town

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

- Terry McMillan

topic: Home, People, House, Home Town

For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.

- Robert Benchley

topic: New York, Home, Past, Sitting Up, Home Town

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

- George McGovern

topic: Home, Kind, Wander, Home Town

For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.

- Loco Dice

topic: Home, Fighting, Artist, Home Town

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

- James Howard Kunstler

topic: Dream, Home, Motherhood, Pantheon, Home Town

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

- Peter MacKay

topic: Mean, Home, Law, Novas, Nova Scotia

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

- Robert Vaughn

topic: Home, Paper, Pages, Home Town

... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)

- Tina Modotti

source: Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”

topic: Country, Home, San Francisco, Home Town

I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

- Kenneth Lonergan

source: "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

topic: Home, Atmosphere, Different, Home Town

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

- William Jackson

topic: Character, Home, Simple, Home Town

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

- Jeff Foxworthy

source: Jeff Foxworthy, David Boyd (2004). “You might be a redneck if--”, Rutledge Hill Pr

topic: Sports, Mother, School, Hunting Dog, Driveway

My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town .. a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. “My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

- Gerald Kaufman

source: "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

topic: Home, Grandmother, Government, Gaza, Israeli

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

- Martina Navratilova

topic: Country, Beach, New York, Palm Springs, Hedonistic

I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

- Kesh

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: New York, Moving, Home, Middle Of Nowhere, Home Town

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

- Roman Coppola

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

topic: Beautiful, Dad, Home, Home Town

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

- Meredith Willson

topic: Music, Home, Men, Music Man, Masons

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Lonely, Children, Home, Bereft, Home Town

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

- James McAvoy

topic: Drama, Home, School, Glasgow, Home Town

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Couple, Home, Night, Night Club, Home Town

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

- Robert Rodriguez

topic: Block, Home, School, Little Towns, School Friends

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

- Tom Shales

topic: Home, Simple, People, Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Art, Honesty, Home, Scandalous, Home Town

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.

- Larry Hagman

topic: Home, Cities, Towns, Home Town

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Jesus, Home, Cities, Birmingham, Apostle Paul

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

- Samuel Johnson

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

topic: Pain, Home, Journey, Ostentatious, Home Town

The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.

- Paul Burrell

topic: Home, People, Perception, Home Town

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

- William Christopher Handy

source: William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

topic: Home, Wind, Snakes, Home Town

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Country, Home, Simple, Janus, Homesickness

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it

- Roberto Duran

topic: Mother, Horse, Home, Fiesta, Home Town

I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear

- Paul Simon

source: Song: Slip Slidin' Away

topic: Passion, Home, Men, Overpowering, Home Town

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

- Josh Turner

topic: Growing Up, Home, Sacrifice, Insurance Agent, Home Town

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.

- Sasa Stanisic

topic: Memories, Writing, Home, Nationalistic, Home Town

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

- Zach Condon

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Home, Cities, Towns, Home Town

On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Home, Two, Iraq, Databases, Home Town

Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

- Sam Abell

source: Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

topic: Home, People, Interesting, Home Town

My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.

- Louie Bellson

topic: Jobs, Home, Band, Home Town

My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

- Jon Foreman

source: Source: www.scenepointblank.com

topic: Home, Sunset, Sleep, San Diego, Home Town

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

- Nikki Sanderson

topic: Home, Clubs, Towns, Queues, Home Town

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

- Alan Titchmarsh

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Home, Blow, Jewels, Londoners, Vicinity

I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous.

- Trina Gulliver

topic: Home, Men, Thinking, Home Town

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

- Janis Joplin

topic: Home, Tired, Play, Home Town

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

- O. Henry

source: O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.52, 谷月社

topic: Home, Beer, Glasses, Home Town