“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.” StatesWould BeUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsNew YorkStandardsRiversTownsReasonableRiverside Author:Paul Goldberger
“I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.” PeopleIfsStatesMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesThousandBasesTownsIntuitionExperimentsMediumsSufficientGermanyCampsNaziPersonnelNazi GermanyDeath Camps Author:Stanley Milgram
“If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.” IfsWantStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesOughtPrayingTownsMeetingsCongressBoardsHallsAcceptableSchool BoardBoard Meetings Author:Tim Walberg
“I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.” StatesGamesHoursUnitedUnited StatesTenTownsCentsShellsStranded Author:W. C. Fields
“Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryStatesReasonSchoolChristianJobsLeftUnitedBoysUnited StatesCryDadTownsMovedWestMy DadMilesBeachLakesFloridaPalmsRedneckSwampsAlligatorsNebraskaOrlandoCountry BoyChristian SchoolsPalm Beach Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“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
“New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.” StatesStrongUnitedUnited StatesTraditionEnglandTownsElectionMeetingsNew EnglandElection DayVermont Author:Murray Bookchin
“It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.” CountryStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesJudgingTrumpTownsRisingHallsSenateTidesSenatorsAttackingRiotMccainEnmityBerkeleyIncivility Author:David Brooks
“There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.” PeopleThinkingStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesThousandTenTownsSmall TownPersistent Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.” StatesAmericaUnitedOpinionUnited StatesTownsTyrannyFranceUnited States Of AmericaSmall TownPublic OpinionPeer Pressure Book:The Red and the Black Source: The Red and the Black
“Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.” ChildrenWarStatesDiesFightingAsksProcessPoorUnitedPovertyUnited StatesVictoryTownsOur ChildrenVictimSoldierIraqNeighborhoodPrisonerScreamAntiwarUrbanVolunteerSmall TownComradeHumiliatedAbu Ghraib Author:Arundhati Roy
“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country” ShouldCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesShould HaveTheaterTownsCivilizedFederal GovernmentCounty Author:Tony Randall