The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
. . . Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.
So get up, get, get get down 911 is a joke in yo town
Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him. "
Unfortunately, I can't fault other writers and directors for how they choose to present themselves, but I just think people are very fearful of declaring themselves as feminists because it's just confused with being misandry. And if you get labeled a man-hater in this town, you're screwed. Men are still the gatekeepers.
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.
San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky. , a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.
As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and. . . pour new life and vigor in the national system. The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people. . . To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.
The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
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.
Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.
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.