“Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.” KnowsStatesHouseDadBuiltTownsMovedNativeMoved On Author:Gerald McRaney
“I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.” ChildrenMadeBookCharacterParentCitiesStrangeSceneDiscoveryTownsMereMannersNativeRegionsObservingAlarmsVisiting Book:History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall Source: History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall
“For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.” GivingLittlesHas BeensHomePastWonderWeekNew YorkSittingGive MeTownsBreathsNativeGood TimesGuestsTireManhattanTransfersNew YorkersVisitorsBedtimeShrinesHome TownSitting Up Author:Robert Benchley
“An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.” CountryMembersTownsDirtyNative Author:Marjorie Fleming
“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 American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.” MightGroupsHollywoodTownsIndependentStrangerSettingSettingsGenreCinemaNativeOutsidersInactionEccentricGenre Is Author:Philip French
“Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.” WellsMeanEarthCommunityWhiteOfficeTownsImpactSouthPostsKneesNativeLakesHardshipVillageWoundedClosureReservationsMinnesotaDakotaPost OfficeSouth DakotaNorth DakotaWounded Knee Author:Winona LaDuke
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidDifferentHelpingCoursesLeftFieldsTownsGreenImpactNativeFarmingBeing CoolMassachusettsGreen Fields Author:James W. Loewen
“Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.” EnoughFeelingsBigsYoungCitiesWorryWrittenPoetOvercomingTownsWorthyNativeUrgesImmigrantsUrbanSmall TownSuburbsSeductiveWritten WordBig CitiesSwept Away Author:Allison Joseph
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” IfsMenWorldBelieveLiteratureGreaterDangerousExampleModelsTownsPursuitNativeRole ModelsAspirePursuit Of Knowledge Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” MindCountryHomeCertainSimpleEmotionKnownStrangeBirthTownsLongingNostalgiaFamiliarCuriousNativeUrgesTraitsTornRoller CoasterCoastersHomesicknessHomesickHome TownJukeboxJanusHeart Is A Lonely Hunter Book:The mortgaged heart Source: The mortgaged heart