Quotes of: Small-towns Keyword

Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.

Yiddish

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

Edward Heath

Send a fool to close the shutters and he'll close them all over town.

Yiddish

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

Kenneth Fisher

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

Pete Domenici

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

T. Harv Eker

Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of...

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

As they gently lowered it into the earth, all stared silently at the coffin but one: a young woman of twenty-five who glanced absentmindedly into the distance where an unknown figure stood – watching, waiting, his face buried in the shadow of his h...

Exogenesis

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all direct...

Farewell Summer

I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’t. He worked in a factory and spent his summer evenings at a reenactment village as a blacksmith or something equally masculine. But it didn’t reall...

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of...

Relevance: Matter More

Learning about sex was a little bit like learning grammar. Every teacher you had assumed some other teacher taught you the year before, or the year before that, as if none of them wanted to talk about it, as if grammar was a bunch of dirty words. A m...

Spoken in Darkness: Small-town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death

Though the people of this modest village were not accustomed to seeing such barbaric men as Varg, it was his inhuman features that had the citizens of Fellenshire Village on edge. Not only was Varg's hair whiter than an old wise man's beard, but he w...

The White Wolf

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Michele Bachmann

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Sonya Levien

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Ian Anderson

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.

Robert Boswell

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

Thomas Lennon

I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

Stan Coveleski

When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.

Joe Scarborough