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“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

People Children Care Age America Parent Taken Grew Grew Up Towns Old Age Proximity

Author:Robert Benton

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.”

Wells Made Hands Kids Age Known Boys Crime Six Gun Towns Surprise West Size Spread East Pockets Legends Daring Virginia Colorado Vests East And West Rio West Virginia Colts Wheeling

Author:Billy Joel

“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.”

People Kind Age Left Vision Audience Rocks Involved Scene Band Creating Singing Towns Punk Punk Rock

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.”

People Age Groups Crosses Towns Broads Selection

Author:Robin Ince

“Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.”

Real Age Found Company Environment College Theater Towns Available Nine Atmosphere

Author:Christopher Reeve

“I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.”

Age Young Born Heard Special Planets Masters Genius Towns Wings Track Young Age Pianist Newborn Right Track Memphis Really Deep

Author:Charles Lloyd

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.”

Kids Age Jobs Acting Five Week Mom Involved Lessons Six Singing Towns Dancing My Mom Composing Full Time Jobs Singing Dancing

Author:Jason Graves

“My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.”

Years States Age Culture Language Born New York Towns Spokes Southern Grandfather My Grandfather Southern Italy

Author:Abel Ferrara

“Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.”

Way Age Cities Tvs Towns Miles Isolated Naive Eighty Back When Immature Desolate Ranching

Author:Susan Schneider

“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.”

Different Country Matter Age Names Boys Fields Son Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Built Towns Raised My Mom My Son Southern Grandfather Small Town Corn My Grandfather Backyards Indiana Mom And Dad

Author:Mike Pence

“I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.”

People Years Age School Three Church Towns Piano Revival Carolina North Carolina

Author:Nina Simone

“In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.”

Littles Real Age Four Towns Village Hungary Romania Little Towns

Author:Elie Wiesel

“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.”

People Looks Shows Home Age Certain Simple Towns Homesick Home Town Andy Griffith Show Mayberry

Author:Tom Shales

“I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.”

People May Age Night Song Left Speak Sleep Path Written Heard Adventure Kings Towns Aging University Sanity Princess Burned Stolen Moonlight Name Of The Wind Minstrels

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.”

Wells Age Novel One Thing Middle Towns Moved Locals Catholicism Middle Ages Precocious Great Novels

Book:Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

Source: Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

“It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.”

Source: Out of Africa

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”

Knows Men Age Past History Knowing Towns Hills Not Knowing Disadvantages High Points Alone Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

Age Young My Family Towns Instruments Exposure Young Age Live Music Hee Haw

Author:Alan Jackson

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