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  • Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

    Home   Wind   Snakes  
    William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
  • My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

    "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.
  • My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.

    Jobs   Home   Band  
  • The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.

  • I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

    "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.
  • When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

    Home   Cities   Dallas  
  • For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.

    New York   Home   Past  
  • When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

    Art   Honesty   Home  
  • The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

    Home   Chinese   Delight  
    Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.370, Bradt Travel Guides
  • It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

    Home   Character   Simple  
  • My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

    Home   Sunset   Sleep  
    Source: www.scenepointblank.com
  • I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.

    Memories   Writing   Home  
    "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.
  • I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

    Home   Paper   Pages  
  • Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On

    Song   Home   Records  
    Song: Hold On, Album: Mule Variations
  • Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

    MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”
  • You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  • Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

    Source: dougplummer.blogs.com
  • Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

    Home   People   House  
  • Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

    Home   Thinking   World  
  • You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

    Home   Beer   Redneck  
  • You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

    Home   Tired   Play  
  • Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

    Lonely   Children   Home  
  • It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

    Country   Home   Simple  
    Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd
  • I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

    New York   Moving   Home  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town.

    Home   Doctors   Waiting  
    "Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams to guest in Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2015.
  • People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

    Home   Simple   People  
  • I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous.

    Home   Men   Thinking  
  • No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

    Couple   Home   Night  
  • I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

    Home   Cities   Towns  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

    Drama   School   Home  
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