Towns Quotes - Page 39

• They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Cities, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.387

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Honor, President

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

  Quentin Bryce

  Girl, Education, Country

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• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

  Diane Ackerman

  Senior, Sweet, Memories

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• Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

  Austin Kleon

  Nice, World, Small Town

  "8 Questions with Best Selling Author Austin Kleon". Interview with David W. Wright, sterlingandstone.net.

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• In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

  William Styron

  Sea, Quality, Vineyards

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.631, Random House

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• Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Boston, Cities

  President Obama's Address Following Boston Explosions, www.npr.org. April 15, 2013.

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• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

  Verne Troyer

  Class, People, Michigan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.

  Christian Siriano

  Cute, Christian, School

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• I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Issues, Keys

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

  Josh McDowell

  Bible, Jesus, Dad

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• Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

  Meredith Willson

  Music, Home, Men

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• A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

  John Wolcot

  Music, Razors, Cried

  John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.136

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

  Johnny Cash

  Black, Sides, Hopeless

  Song: The Man In Black

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• As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

  Samuel

  Strong, Children, School

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• Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

  Julian Jaynes

  Art, Civilization, Doe

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• On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

  David Byrne

  Eye, Views, Perfect

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.247, Penguin

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• I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

  Diane Paulus

  Teaching, Class, Tomorrow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

  Joe Jonas

  Brother, Mean, Parent

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• I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Play, Guy, Age

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• My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Splits, Made

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• I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Sarah Vowell

  College, Ideas, People

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• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.

  Dax Shepard

  Years, Roots, People

  "Michigan's own Dax Shepard discusses his new film 'Hit and Run'". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. August 21, 2012.

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