I know how difficult it is to come from a small town and make a name for yourself.
I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.
My father studied under a street light in a small town in Haryana.
I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents’ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.
I grew up in a really small town. I had a great friend group and an amazing community of people who were supporting and loving and moving out to L.A. it was really hard to find that. Especially just starting off my teen years.
We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it.
Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Coming from a small town in New Mexico – Lovington, New Mexico – I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.
I got hit by the bug of reading – not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children’s books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.
I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water – no tap water, and no electricity – and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
We have a huge immigration population in Sweden, but when I was younger, I grew up in a small town and, at one point, I was the only foreigner in my class. I really felt different, and I thought I looked different. Sometimes it was a good thing, sometimes I felt insecure.
I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
One of the things that’s wonderful about having a festival in a small town like Enniskillen is that we don’t have lots of purpose-built venues so we have to be creative about where we place events.
Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it’s not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
I’m from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.
When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I discovered so much new music. Finding all of that music and being inspired that much all at once, that was the benefit of being from a small place.
I’m a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don’t meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It’s not whether you’re from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
If we were at a bar in a small town and not many people were there, people would bug me to bring in my guitar and play. I was paying my dues, learning how it all worked.
