Best Towns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.”

Young Parent Goes On My Family Towns West Texas Circus Cemetery Disneyland West Texas

Author:Jenny Lawson

“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Made Film Watches Growing Up Growing Long Time My Friends Towns Classic Best Times Best Family Friends Growing Up

Author:Logan Lerman

“I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.”

Thinking Kind Sound Style Ears Towns Pumps

Author:Michael McKean

“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.”

Mean Home Law Saws Crime Needed Protect Towns Victim Protection Crowns Attorney Home Town Nova Scotia Novas

Author:Peter MacKay

“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”

Littles Used Fire Towns Safety Complexes Corners Used To Be Stations County Around The Corner Massachusetts Hampshire Little Towns Public Safety

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.”

Able Walks Towns Locals Local Food

Author:Sienna Miller

“I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.”

Different Kids School Film Five Towns Video Life Experience Film School Avid

Author:Jodie Foster

“I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.”

Firsts Persons Color Towns Borders Small Town Integrated First Person Illinois

Author:Tom Morello

“Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.”

People Feels Huge Percent Pressure Towns Clothings Imaginary Ninety

Author:Lucas Neff

“L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.”

Feels Fun Towns Connected Oil Scotland Coast Rigs

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.”

People Ifs Years Doe Percent Towns Newspapers Print Surviving

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.”

Shows Tvs Murder Towns Court Small Town Hooked

Author:Kevin Pollak

“From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.”

Path Towns Insanity Lap Nebraska Wyoming

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

Born Grew Grew Up Towns Small Town Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.”

Knows World Littles Country Care Speak Building Kings Directors Towns Ruling Symbolism Little Towns Secluded

Author:Franka Potente

“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

Firsts School Left Acting Skills Theater Towns Cameras Backgrounds Small Town Movie Theater

Author:Franka Potente

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.”

Knows Want Years Wanted President Growing Up Growing Ten Towns Chicago Mayors

Author:William Petersen

“How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?”

Knows Happens Guy Wonder Towns

Author:Mike Quade

“When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.”

People Whole Running Kids Moving Existence Towns Down And Whole Life Lifestyle Shopping Centre Carnivals Nomadic

Author:Randy Quaid

“I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.”

People Thinking Feels Made Spirit Comfortable Towns Los Angeles Gypsy Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Matthew Rhys

“Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.”

Ifs World Made Left Hollywood Towns Excuse Around The World

Author:Cesar Romero

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.”

Way Community Towns Small Town

Author:Jeremy Renner

“You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.”

Want Wells Enough Sides Poor Towns Rely Castles

Author:Martha Reeves

“Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”

People Thinking Whole Industry Degrees Six Hollywood Towns Small Town Bumps Kevin

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.”

Ifs World Littles School Grew Grew Up Towns Patient Library Enthusiastic Librarian Doorways Another World Bookstores Tennessee

Author:Michael Sims

“In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.”

People Towns South Thrown Make The Best Of It

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.”

Giving Mean Lessons Towns Method

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.”

Ifs Men Should Suffering Culture Animal Towns Killing Satisfied Killing Each Other

Author:Compay Segundo

“My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.”

Firsts Different Jobs House Towns Hated Afternoon Cleaning Elderly Clean House

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.”

People Knows Want Walks Five New York Opposites Towns Coffee Cups Small Town Bumps Coffee Cup Maine Physical Beauty

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”

Men Has Beens Country Seems Differences Church Taken Ought Models Towns Faults Ancient

Author:George Edmund Street

“Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.”

Littles Sometimes America Hollywood Towns West Coast Small Town West Coast

Author:Howard Stringer

“Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.”

Years Lasts Beautiful Girl Sweet Spring Garden Rivers Towns Desperate Throwing Fragrance Rice Dazzling Canopy Azaleas

Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”

Done Social Can Do Community Industry Built Hollywood Towns Phones Traditional Mail Phone Calls Afar Small Communities

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.”

Tree Brother Towns Tiny Climbing Barefoot Ponies Idyllic Mockingbird Huckleberry Climbing Trees Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

World Art Country Shows Film House Half Towns Climate Very Good Size Cinema Smallest Sweden Good Films Norway Small Countries

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.”

States Enough Life Is Cities Quality Growing Unique Towns Raises Remarkable Destination Better Place Small Town Quality Of Life Affordable Suburbs Ohio Within Reach

Author:Bob Taft

“I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.”

People Grew Grew Up Towns Florida Small Town

Author:Miles Teller

“Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.”

Years Lasts Games Fantasy Towns Finals Germany Score Halls Concerts Last Year Location Orchestra Leipzig

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“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.”

Home Study Fronts Politician Paper Pages Towns Communist Papers Home Town

Author:Robert Vaughn

“New Orleans in an amazing town.”

Towns New Orleans

Author:Benjamin Walker

“I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.”

I Can Home Sports Growing Towns Accustomed Boston Great Sports Home Home

Author:Wes Welker

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.”

Thinking Knows Men Kind Able America Felt Perfect Attention Records Middle Thirds Paid Towns Aim Size Access Genre Fake Hipster Nashville

Author:Jack White

“I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.”

World Care America Towns Take Care Admire Places In The World Nashville

Author:Justin Timberlake

“The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.”

Kind Country Fun Stuff Rocks Towns Nashville Fun Stuff

Author:Connie Britton

“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.”

Ifs Kind Different Home Trouble Towns Atmosphere Home Town

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

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