Towns Quotes - Page 35

• When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

  Willie Morris

  Funny, Dog, Men

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.11, Vintage

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• It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

  Jackie Vernon

  Funny, Dog, Night

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• After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Men, Long

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• Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

  Art Linkletter

  Music, Reason, Troubadours

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• We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

  Cornel West

  Next Steps, Movement, Alive

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• Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

  Colin Farrell

  Rip, World, Village

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• Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.

  Colin Farrell

  Mother, Children, Rip

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• Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

  Leonard Strong

  Country, People, Giving

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• This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

  Danny Elfman

  Halloween, Our Town, Scream

  Song: This Is Halloween, 1993

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• (The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.

  Charles Birch

  Christian, Animal, Rights

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• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Father, Drama, Struggle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

  Richard Neal

  Cutting, Arguing, Should

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• No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.

  Margo Jefferson

  Sweet, Jobs, Real

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• Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

  John Betjeman

  Rivers, House, Church

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• What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

  Ernest Poole

  Dukes, Kind, Crops

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• People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Names, People

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• Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

  Richard Corliss

  Art, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

  John Ralston Saul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Democracy

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• But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

  Jennifer Echols

  Stupid, Would Be, Bars

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Forget You”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• A small town has as many eyes as a fly

  Sonya Hartnett

  Eye, Small Town

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Eye, Bird, Small Town

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

  Donald Harington

  Believe, Past, Names

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• At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!

  Dave Haywood

  Redneck, Security Guards, Hey

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• Small towns harbor small imaginations.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Small Town, Harbors

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, Middle East, Ghost

  "Angelina Jolie Writes NYT Op-Ed on Visiting Syria and Iraq: "Nothing Prepares You". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2015.

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