Twitter is a global town square.
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.
Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat. , Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba. ]
An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.
What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.
In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.
I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.
I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.