Quotes About Hometown

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

Brian Owens is a young guy from Ferguson, Missouri, my hometown, who I don't think emulates me at all, but I really enjoy his particular style. He kind of makes me think of the older school of soul singers like Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye.

I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.

My hometown has been devastated by a lack of access to trauma prevention and mental health services.

I know this is my hometown of Toronto, but I'm going to treat 'TakeOver: Toronto' like it's another night at the office. I'm going to prove why I am one of the best in the world.

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

He pulled the shade, climbed into bed, thought of the Replacements, a band from his hometown singing about needing a job and needing a girl. Rodney needed both. But he needed the job to get the girl. And he needed ambition to get either.

For myself, I'm still little Joanna from the hood - from a small town in Poland, and I'm still having my goals, my dreams.

Coming from a small town of Mexico, Missouri, we got 11,000 people. Never seen a celebrity.

A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

I grew up in a small town, like most Canadians.

I'm a small town kid from Uhrichsville, Ohio.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

She had resisted returning there because to return to one's hometown felt like surrender.

For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it's always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.

It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City.