My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
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.
what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.
[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. . . . I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too
. . . one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.