“You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.” WantWellsEnoughSidesPoorTownsRelyCastles Author:Martha Reeves
“A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.” WellsReasonRightsHappenedSpecialTownsThings HappenCivil RightsErasAtlanta Author:Ivan Allen, Jr.
“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.” WellsWaterPayTechnologyClearEconomicLandCostGainsTownsEnvironmentalNeighborAccomplishedFarmersRelativeCropsDegradationEcologicalNew TechnologyInputFertilizerEnvironmental DegradationEconomic Success Author:Barry Commoner
“We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?” WellsCultureCitiesGrowingFrontsNew YorkTownsWavePreservesNew York CityCheerfulSmall TownSubwayPorchFront Porches Author:Jimmy Wales
“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.” WellsMadeHandsKidsAgeKnownBoysCrimeSixGunTownsSurpriseWestSizeSpreadEastPocketsLegendsDaringVirginiaColoradoVestsEast And WestRioWest VirginiaColtsWheeling Author:Billy Joel
“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.” TryingWellsLooksLongWholeFacesAsksSecretStepsDarknessCuttingSonTownsFolksEdgesWhole LifeEmsYour FaceDragEvery Step Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.” KnowsWorldNeedsWellsMayMightAmericaAdvantageTownsTiredYou Again Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.” WayWellsMeanBodyMightNationsIssuesTownsTerrorismContemporaryVillageUnfortunateParallelsGoverningFear Of The Unknown Author:Adrien Brody
“In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.” WellsTwoCitiesKnownDivineRiversStonesTownsBonesDefinedReignWell KnownSeventiesMonkHideousFangsRagsStinkPavementSewersCologneNymphsWenches Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.” WorldWellsHas BeensShowsLandTelevisionTvsSceneTownsMeetingsCrowdsAccidentsCoffeeGenrePhenomenonSpectrumCouchesPsychiatristAmerican LifeTalk Shows Book:The Rooster's Egg Source: The Rooster's Egg
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.” KnowsWellsSaidStrongCitiesVirtueSecurityMilitaryWallCitizensDisciplineStrongerTownsBonesSecureExpertsDo You KnowPointingGreat CitiesMilitary Discipline Author:Francois Rabelais
“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.” WellsMeanKnownMetsHollywoodUltimateLet MeTownsScreensCourageousCultFabulousLambsArcsBe CourageousActs Of CourageGarbo Author:Billy Wilder
“I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.” IfsWantGivingWellsI CanDifferentUseBigsJobsProcessStyleRedTownsFolksCrowdsSettingSettingsMeatHallsMy ThoughtsGinDifferent StylesThought ProcessRed Meat Author:Barack Obama
“In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.” PeopleWellsBigsTownsNervousGood PeopleSmall TownBad People Author:Paul Harvey
“The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.” IfsWellsImportantHandsGamesLostForgetCitiesKeysBeatsBallsBiggerTownsErrorsClubsBest ThingsThings To DoPacksForget It Author:Smoky Joe Wood
“Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.” KnowsYearsWellsBookCertainHouseYears AgoTownsAtmosphereThirtyCharmFortyGreyHospitalityRailroadsDenverOmaha Book:A Lost Lady Source: A Lost Lady
“Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.” WellsChildrenIdeasWholeEyeKidsIndividualParentSidesResponsibilitySecurityPoliticianConsequenceProgramTownsBlockWell BeingBehaveExpensiveStakesRoofCiting Author:Richard Stolley
“Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.” YearsWellsPersonsCitiesAirEconomicAmountTownsDollarsThreatEnvironmentalRateBillionsForestsDamageRisingNeglectPollutionUglinessStainsTollsAilmentsAir PollutionFarmlandRespiratoryCities And Towns Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.” FeelsWellsKindMadeNew YorkTownsMovedExpensiveAnxiousSmall Town Author:Shaun Fleming
“I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous.” ThinkingMenWorldNeedsWellsDoeHomeGamesKnownTvsTownsWideWell KnownProfileDartsHigh ProfileHome Town Author:Trina Gulliver
“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
“I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...” KnowsWellsKindTwoHumorLightSeemsFunnyFunStuffClearFiveConnectionsTownsGodmotherLight Of My Life Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.” WellsStoriesLostNationsNumbersKnownBattleTownsWell KnownMemorialTributeMemorial Day Author:John Linder
“I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.” PeopleWorldWellsAmericaOpportunityPresidentNumbersGrewGrew UpTownsWesternFactoriesSteelPollsPennsylvaniaPittsburgh Author:Rick Santorum
“I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.” PeopleWayWantWellsLittlesWholeStoriesSchoolJobsMessagesTraditionTownsCongressFolksCommunicateSingersVoyagesBoogieTroubadours Author:David Crosby
“Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life. I think in a lot of ways unions aren't necessary anymore, because what they were started for, I think a lot of those conditions don't exist. And this union is so odd, because any sort of fight we do in this union is not for us, it's for future generations.” ThinkingWayWellsHas BeensFightingInterestingGenerationsConditionsInvolvedTownsUnionsOddPhenomenonChicagoFuture Generation Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“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
“Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.” IfsWellsLongGirlTownsIslandsNeighborhoodEvery GirlLong IslandKenny Author:Carol Leifer
“... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)” KnowsWayFeelsWellsCountryShowsHomeMightTurnsTownsPhotographerProphetTake MeSan FranciscoAcquaintanceOld FriendsHome Town Book:The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston Source: The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston
“When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.” KnowsWellsCoursesPayBrainFrontsDadCrossesTownsMy DadPermanentCaliforniaDamageJailBusTicketsScrewsMotorcycleSupermarketsPay The PriceScrew UpsHelmet Author:Christopher Titus
“Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.” WellsLongRunningWaterTvsGrewGrew UpLong TimeTownsCanadaSmall TownRunning Water Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.” BelieveWellsLooksSaidWholeGirlThreeKnownFashionDecidedExcitingTownsPhotographerStudiosCuriousExcellentAgencyWell KnownModeling Author:Jurgen Teller
“Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know?” KnowsWellsBigsInspirationCultureMediaTownsBeachSleepySan Diego Author:Gary Jules
“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
“Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.” IfsWellsLooksKindNextWalksExampleStrangeTerribleTownsHungerRecognitionBullshitOscarsNext TimeBentAfflictionScratchesArthritisSlapping Author:Rod Serling
“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.” MindFirstsWellsKindMadeNightBreakAudienceBandSpringTownsCustomersEastConclusionTexasCatastropheCurtainsGigsLoadedCokeLegendaryEast Texas Author:Billy Gibbons
“Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?” PeopleWellsStillsHomeCareInterestingTownsStatementsI CareNoveltyExoticMinusHome Town Author:Sam Abell
“Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.” MenYearsBelieveWellsI BelieveGayBehaviorAdultsTownsTechniqueSan FranciscoArrestedGay MenEntrapment Author:Cleve Jones
“When I got drafted I was sitting at home with my Mom watching the draft live on the internet when my name popped up on the screen. We both jumped up in joy and I immediately called my Dad who was out of town for work. Everyone was thrilled and then about 10 minutes late Matt Anderson (the Marlins scout who drafted me) called to give me the news as well and to start negotiating a contract.” GivingWellsHomeJoyNamesMinutesMomInternetDadLateNewsSittingGive MeTownsMy DadMy MomScreensContractsNegotiating Author:Graham Taylor
“Let's say you want to do a job, and you want to be really successful. You want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now, that's fine if that's what makes you happy.” IfsWantWellsJobsMovingCareersSuccessfulFineTownsLimitationSmall TownMake You HappyUnwillingPinnacleWhere You LiveOur Town Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that`s exactly how President [Barack] Obama team`s and Democrats dismissed the 2009 town halls and Tea Party protests.” WellsHousePresidentWhiteResultsPartyTeamTownsDemocratBarackTeaProtestHallsWhite HouseTea PartyPresident Barack ObamaFiery Author:Chuck Todd
“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindAmericaCommunityCitiesTrumpMarkTownsChicagoSouthernSmall Town Author:Irvine Welsh
“Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.” WantWellsRunningCitiesCompanyBasesTownsMy FavoriteTemporaryAngleFavorite City Author:Rita Moreno
“There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen.” MenTryingHumansWellsSaidWantedRememberYoungFatherCommunityHappenedHeardDeserveTownsMinistersYoung ManMentorMinistryOur Community Author:David C. Driskell
“Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsLooksMeanInterestingCitiesTalkingStreetsWalkingMembersTownsConvincedOddBad ThingsPhenomenonInteresting ThingsCities In The World Author:Viggo Mortensen
“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” WellsArtFashionNew YorkIndustryTheaterTownsFinancePublishingAcademiaMovie MakingService Industry Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.” WellsChildrenHomeSocialWifeDestructionTownsTradeUnionsDemocraticVariousIllegalOrgansInvasionApprovedBelgiumMassacresTrade UnionsGuerrillas Author:Clara Zetkin
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.” PeopleWorldWellsFoundWaitingCasesLandStudentsSucceedTownsWorkersFolksIllVicesMatesRestlessRetiredVice VersaServicemen Author:Tom Robbins
“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.” IfsMenWritingWellsMayChildrenLittlesDoeHas BeensDoneSeemsRememberBehindsWonderDoubtGraceMiracleTownsGreat ThingsNo DoubtOld ManSooner Or LaterGod's GraceRemember MeShabbyLittle Towns Book:Gilead: A Novel Source: Gilead: A Novel
“The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.” WellsEyeSpiritWorryBuiltRiversTownsCleanCheerValleysWorldlyMississippiMississippi RiverDreamland Author:Mark Twain