Small Town Life Quotes:

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

- Josh Lucas

topic: Thinking, Opposites, Southern, Small Town Life

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

- Susan Orlean

topic: Space, Texture, World, Marvelous Things, Open Spaces

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

- Anna Nicole Smith

topic: Towns, Small Town, Living In A Small Town, Small Town Life

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

topic: Couple, Years, Cities, Pleasant Things, Small Town Life

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

- Buzz Bissinger

topic: Texas, Curiosity, Odessa, Small Town Life

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

- Alice Neel

topic: Art, Drawing, People, Overreaction, Small Town Life

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

- Ed Koch

topic: Running, No Friends, Towns, Albany, Small Town Life