“I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.” FirstsPersonsColorTownsBordersSmall TownIntegratedFirst PersonIllinois Author:Tom Morello
“It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.” RealSelfCountryAmericaNew YorkTownsSatisfiedBordersSmall TownSmall Countries Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.” TwoMonthsTownsBordersJailMexicanTwo MonthsMexican Border Author:Dean Ambrose
“Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.” PeopleKnowsKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingTownsBordersNativeNative AmericanFrustratedMichiganIllinoisPronunciation Author:Sufjan Stevens
“The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.” UsedFightingForceNationsTownsIraqRadicalBordersIslamicAfghanistanSyriaEgyptExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisJihadLibyaGatewaysYemen Author:Richard Engel
“I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.” TwoUsedMiddleStrangeGrewGrew UpTownsWestSpendingEastBordersGermanyGrandmotherFarmsMy GrandmotherSpending TimeEast And WestWest Germany Author:Matthea Harvey
“As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.” HumansPersonsArtImportantStoriesUseCommunityGrewGrew UpTownsBordersNeglectedMarginalized Author:Raul Castillo
“I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.” PeopleKnowsTwoSometimesHoursHalfGoneGenerationsTownsSevenBordersMexicanDescentHalf HoursAntonioSan Antonio Author:Sandra Cisneros
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in Mexico close to the border with the United States, so of course you have a lot of traffic and noise and dogs barking right nearby, and for that you have to repeat a lot and Robert Rodriguez didn't do that. Smart, smart, smart, you better have smarts also.” StatesFilmCoursesUnitedUnited StatesDogSmartTownsNoiseBordersRepeatsMexicoTraffic Author:Werner Herzog
“I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.” LittlesMajorsTownsBordersVirginiaTennesseeLittle Towns Author:Lee Majors
“Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.” LittlesAmericaGirlGrowing UpGrowingOne DayTownsBordersGovernors Author:Susana Martinez
“But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.” CountryLawCertainFiveEuropeTownsSellsFruitLawyerMilesBarsBreadInstanceOddBordersIslandsBakersWhere You LiveOdd Things Author:Daniel Handler
“Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.” WorldStatesHomeCitiesAirSeaOceanTownsFlyingBoundariesFlightBordersAviationAirplaneLapGreat AviationAirplanes And FlyingShoreline Author:L. Welch Pogue
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.” WorldWaySaidEventsCircumstancesDiedTownsHistoricalBordersBehaveSeptemberNothingnessElectricityNaziGlancesCostumesAttemptingCathedralsAmbiguousHistorical Events Author:Mary Jo Bang