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Quotes About Town

Our conversations slide through time, and we dwell often on setting straight the town record.
~ Louise Erdrich
What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk!
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
She has driven into town to get the mail. He had no intention of taking you anywhere but to your bed. He is a dog," he growled, and then glared at Dave and added, "Although that seems to me to be an insult to Bailey and her kind. She would never behave in so unsavory a manner.
~ Lynsay Sands
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Jesus, half of Dublin seems to be from that one-horse town. Clio as well. Well, it sure breeds fine-looking women.' His arms tightened a little around her. Kit was about to pull away when she saw Stevie Sullivan looking at her over Frankie's shoulder. She didn't pull away, instead she smiled up at Kevin. 'Any tighter and I'll put my knee up with a sudden jerk,' she said, still smiling sweetly.
~ Maeve Binchy
course, didn't mean much, since Roseto was so much in its own world that it was possible to live in the next town and never know much about it. "One of the times when
~ Malcolm Gladwell
some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma. They gathered together the death certificates from residents of the town, going back as
~ Malcolm Gladwell
town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of
~ Malcolm Gladwell
And in the town too were innumerable white cantinhas, where one could drink forever on credit, with the door open and the wind blowing.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn't the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.
~ Andrew Clements
Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Or maybe you wouldn't mind lending me a few of your dresses until I can find a seamstress in town? You haven't exactly been wearing your clothes lately, so I'm sure you won't miss them!
~ Johanna Lindsey
Ages. But this is just the kind of thing that a town like Cairo, Illinois, would peddle as a souvenir. They pronounce it Kay-ro, by the way. It's a town way down in the southern part of Illinois, and it happens to have the same name as the capital of modern-day Egypt.
~ John Bellairs
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.
~ John Bunyan
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
The construction of an ultra-mega kitchen that provides affordable & delectable food for the population in every city & town seems to be a sound proposition to take care of economic situation of the nation.
~ Anuj Somany
In this town of towheaded drunks, [his daughter] would bear the weight of her difference, doled out in murmurs, taunts, and shoves. But now it occurred to Victor that she would suffer more than he ever had because, unlike him, she had been loved, and her punishment would come as a surprise.
~ Anya Ulinich
Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record.
~ Ry Cooder
Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally.
~ Tim Hudson
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
~ Donald Bren
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
~ Ann Dowd
I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
~ Taylor Sheridan
Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.
~ Per Mertesacker