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  • I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

    Avid   Littles   Towns  
    "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.
  • There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

    Two   Half   Littles  
    "Joe Manganiello is ready for your Pee-wee Herman slash fic". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. March 23, 2016.
  • Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

    Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

    Texas   Littles   Towns  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

    Nice   Littles   Towns  
  • I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.

    Teacher   Years   Play  
    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

    Heart   Rivers   Water  
    Hilaire Belloc (1962). “Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse”
  • In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

    Hate   Wings   Touching  
    Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”
  • In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

    Real   Age   Four  
    Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
  • I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

  • When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee.

    Littles   Arizona   Towns  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

    Towns   Ottawa   Littles  
    "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.
  • I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

    "300 Things We Didn't Know About Gerard Butler" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2009.
  • I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

  • I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are 27, there aren't that many where you walk in and say wow, people are excited about their faith. A lot of them, it's just what you do on Sunday at 10:00 or 11:00 and that's not true in other countries. In some other countries, it's still a very lively, vibrant experience.

    "Interview: Philip Yancey on U.S. Christianity, Faith That Matters". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. October 02, 2010.
  • Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

    Country   Juice   Littles  
    Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I just came back from - with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town - 27,000 - have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they're still here. I'm not saying they're here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it's a big problem.

    Iowa   Mexico   Littles  
    "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". Interview with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.
  • I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

    Children   Writing   Men  
    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan
  • Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

    Men   Cities   Littles  
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.378, Modern Library
  • I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

    Block   Men   Eight  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

    Men   Flames   Littles  
    John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.341, Penguin
  • I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.

    Thinking   Littles   Way  
    Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.
  • There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

    Gossip   Littles   Towns  
  • I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

    People   Littles   Towns  
    "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.
  • In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

    Dog   Garden   Rocks  
    Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

    Men   Class   Cities  
    William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
  • When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

    New York   Eye   Artist  
  • I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

    Summer   Ideas   Two  
  • There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

    Littles   Towns   Strange  
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