Best 104 quotes in «small town quotes» category

The courthouse clock struck nine and it was getting late and it was really night on this small street in a small town in a big state on a large continent on a planet earth hurtling down the pit of space toward nowhere or somewhere and Tom feeling every mile of the long drop.

The dead don’t give up anything, but the living do.

The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town life.

There are things you experience growing up in a small town that create memories that last a lifetime.

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

They all had the same visions of breathing fresh, clean air and knowing their neighbors. The kids would eat homegrown veggies and learn the value of an honest day's work.

The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.

You can’t just walk up to a stand of unsuspecting oaks and start touching. They’d think you’re getting fresh with them.

Wendy’s house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy’s bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, “We have the best rates in town!”, but the ‘E’ in ‘rates’ kept flickering on and off day and night so that every few seconds it would switch to, “We have the best rats in town!

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

When Devon Donovan’s family buys Isabelle Cooper’s florist shop as an investment, she isn’t sure if it’s the worst thing that could happen…or her golden opportunity to get the gorgeous billionaire to finally notice her.

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

All my friends are so small town.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

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

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

I am a small-town girl.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

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

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.