H. G. Bissinger Quotes

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

Even in Texas, there's a lot of people who've never been to Lubbock.

[I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great sense of community. They cared about their neighbors. And those values, I think, have stood me well.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

I grew up in a small town.

I have a house in a small town in Tuscany where everybody knows and looks out for each other. That's a similar mentality to on the Isle of Man.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.