Towns Quotes - Page 29

• I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

  James Cameron

  Fall, Rivers, People

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Daughter, Men, Hands

  "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1966.

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• Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Crazy, Mean

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• If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

  Mike Schmidt

  Media, Philadelphia, Cheese

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Children, Home

  "Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Venice, Mind

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

  Eusebius

  War, Men, Cities

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Believe, Winning

  "Iraqi Elections See Massive Turnout Despite Some Violence; General Casey Pleased with Elections; Bush, Congress Reach Compromise on Torture Measure; New York City Transit Strike Looms". "Your World Today", edition.cnn.com. December 16, 2005.

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• If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

  John Wilmot

  Grateful, Heart, Wine

  Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.

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• Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

  Linda Ronstadt

  Girl, Sex, Queens

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• Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

  Byron Dorgan

  Creating, Sugar, Nonsense

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• Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Men, Long Ago

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

  Barack Obama

  People, Dumb Things, Stupid Liberal

  "Obama overstates Kansas tornado deaths". www.nbcnews.com. May 9, 2007.

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• I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Kids, Guitar

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• When I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he was "the player" in town ... I still remember him saying to me 'Is there any reason you're not using your little finger?.

  Ray Flacke

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• ... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her

  Sam Andrew

  Music, Space, Together

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• I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

  Bill Hicks

  Southern, Flying, Handful

  "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2002.

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• There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

  Ross Macdonald

  Writing, Years, Different

  Ross MacDonald (1976). “The Blue Hammer”, G K Hall & Company

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• We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

  Michael Hutchence

  Party, Garden, Mad

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• The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

  Kevin Powers

  Prayer, Spring, War

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

  Mary Antin

  Practice, Use, Elements

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational Business, Someday

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• Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Mother, Country, Men

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