Joan Rivers Quotes

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total!

The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I grew up on a tiny little island.

I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.

Panchayat' is set in a village and is the story of an urban man coming to the village.