Quotes About Small-town

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

our town we like to know the facts about everybody.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

You remember how it feels, don't you? All that desire scorching you straight through. Feeling like you're penned up in a small-town cage, jailed by cornstalk bars. Knowing, just knowing, that you'll be stuck in that quiet little town forever if you don't take a chance.

Dintre toate locurile prin care am fost in toata viata mea, Ault a fost spatial cu cea mai mare densitate de oameni de care ma puteam indragosti.

This polarization has an unmistakably global dimension to it. Even in the small towns where folks bicker with one another about how to run the schools, the local issues and rivalries are overshadowed by a general feeling that all social orders—definitely including small-town America—are being drawn into something much larger.

low-rise, mixed-use buildings of two or three stories—the kind you see on an old-style, small-town main street—bring in ten times the revenue per acre as that of an average big-box development.

One can't lightly part with a man one has seen at church every Sunday of one's life, and exchanged so many friendly words with over his counter. 'Tis a strong bond of neighbourliness in a small place like this, and, as one grows old, changes come heavier—'the clouds return again after the rain.

In Stockton, Illinois

town. Denby. Population two hundred and fourteen.

The third message was from my mother. 'Why me?' she said. 'Why do I have to have a daughter who finds dead bodies? Where did I go wrong? Emily Beeber's daughter never finds dead bodies. Joanne Melanowski's daughter never finds dead bodies. Why me!' News travels fast in the Burg.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

As a town, we had made the error of staying small—and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial – some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else's misfortune out of their voices and gazes – but mostly the community folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young

an entrepreneur from a small North Carolina town once known as Shoe Heel. Yet Malcom McLean, otherwise known as "Idea-a-Minute" McLean, is one of the most consequential figures in the history of transportation.

IT WAS JUST NOON that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.