Towns Quotes - Page 38

• I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Littles, Tailors

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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• A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

  Laura Miller

  Grandmother, Air, Smell

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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Crush, Hands, Able

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• As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

  Storm Jameson

  Life, Children, Self

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• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

  Hernando Cortes

  Wall, Details, Able

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• I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Football, Dream

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• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, School, Army

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Education, Children

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• I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, Animal, Air

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

  Norm Dicks

  Great Day, Revolution, Remember

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• Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

  Ed Miliband

  Cities, Scotland, Village

  "Are you heeding Ed Miliband's call to fly the Saltire across the UK?" by James Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

  Garrison Keillor

  Childhood, Small Town

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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• I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

  Leo Kottke

  Air, Views, Library

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• The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

  Joe Dante

  Hero, Atmosphere, Way

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• The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

  Adam Carolla

  Travel, Knowing, Car

  "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.

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• I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all and everything fed my dreams. Then as an adult whenever I would go on location the first thing we would do as a family is sign up at the closest library. Not only would we find books, but what was happening in that town, because the library is the head of the community.

  Susan Sarandon

  Dream, Book, Imagination

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or education. No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify his name.

  Jim Cymbala

  Keys, Cities, Names

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.

  George Clooney

  Fighting, Winning, Cities

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• I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Paris, Sao Paulo

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