“I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.” TownsMovedEightMixturesFarmland Author:Stephen Sprouse
“Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.” TownsEightHockeyTurkeysNhlToastsThanksgiving Turkey Author:Wayne Gretzky
“I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.” FeelsYearsFirstsBigsOpportunityClassFourPlayerFansTenTownsBlessedEightCoachesLeagueFour YearsConferencesFirst ClassGreat Fans Author:Steve Alford
“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.” ThinkingMenDifferentHappensSchoolYoungFatherParentBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterTownsEightYoung ManSiblingMy SiblingsTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.” WellsThreeFatherHalfStudyJudgingTownsEightTutorOur Town Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“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.” TwoHomePicksTownsSafetyGreenBillsIraqEightExtrasBombsRefugeeGangProvisionScrutinyKentuckyBowlingFingerprintsDatabasesHome Town Author:Rand Paul
“Every single night, there seemed to be the same seven or eight guys - Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club - drinking club - for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.” NightGuySocialStarsRocksMoonTownsDrinkingSevenClubsEightRock StarDrankMickeyKeith Author:Alice Cooper
“I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".” YearsLittlesDifferentBeautifulSpaceSeeingNew YorkStrangePeriodsMy FriendsTownsMovedEightLandscapeAdjustmentDifferent Relationships Author:Emma Stone
“I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.” MenWorldLittlesBlackBornAttentionHeardMonthsTownsRaisedEightCommandBlockBorn And RaisedLittle Towns Author:Dick Gregory
“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.” TownsEightNewspapers Author:Will Rogers
“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.” KnowsLooksLongTwoNovelTownsRoseMy FavoriteEightSmellBitterExpensiveChocolateCakeDozenApartmentTwo DaysGood Long Author:Robin McKinley
“You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.” NeedsYearsWellsBodyTodayLeftForceBitsWalksSkyRainTownsEightMoodOddGrayWetSiblingSnapsSoakingEloise Author:Julia Quinn
“Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!” DifferentShowsTownsEightTexasWowWardrobeTheatrical Author:LeAnn Rimes