Top 240 Small Town Quotes

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn’t a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don’t think we’ve lost that mind-set. We don’t have a bowling alley in our basement. We don’t have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Just being from where I’m from, a little small town, I feel like I’m a good judge of character.

It sounds like a cliche, but it… you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.

I came from a small town in Pennsylvania – where ‘style’ was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on ‘Ugly Betty’ at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.

My dad was a real man’s man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It’s a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through.

Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn’t too many ways to get in trouble. But I found some. We got caught stealing green plums from this old lady’s yard.

I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip. So when I moved to Bombay, people found it strange that I do that.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven’t lived in a small town since.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren’t many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

I’m in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they’re great musicians and people. But I’m most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

I’m living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom’s car in the middle of the night. He’d drive over to my house, I’d sneak out and we’d go out to the desert and just burn things down.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

I’d worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

I grew up in a small town, like most Canadians.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn’t something anyone talked about.

I think growing up in such a small town – before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people’s interiors – there was a great deal of space between people’s lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to.

You could go out on a Sunday spin in Carrick-on-Suir, and it’s a small town, but you could have 80 riders. That wouldn’t even be everyone, in the group. It’s just such a good environment to bring guys through, the support and the experience.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

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

I’ve been a Leeds fan for as long as I can remember. When you are about five or six, you adopt a team – obviously, I didn’t grow up in Leeds. I grew up in a small town on the Irish border, and most of the people my age were Leeds fans, both then and now.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

In a city, there’s more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it’s exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don’t have to be small.

For me to pretend I’m the keeper of the small town mentality or that’s all I’m interested in is wrong.

I was born and raised in Louisiana – a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC – that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

I thought, ‘What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?’

I’m just a small town girl who enjoys making people happy.

You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what’s onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it’s unlike any other joy in the world.

Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren’t a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom’s closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

Tina Fey’s autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It’s her life story: it’s about how she grows up in New York. There’s no obvious reason why I should enjoy this – I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I’m a guy from a small town in Denmark.

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It’s the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.

I live on a small town on the lake, and I mean people would get on their jet skis and just post up in front of my crib, trying to see who was there in my house.

I’m old school. We’re from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I’m gonna be blindfolded.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Im from Tomball: Tomball, Texas. Its a small town on the northwest side of Houston. I dont think it’s as country as people make it seem. It’s actually growing. But don’t go there without me, man, because they’ll take your shoes and all of that.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

In a small town, residents don’t wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in – there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.