Jeaniene Frost Quotes

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Where I'm from, you go to college, become a carpenter or something, and stay in the district.

I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

[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.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.

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

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

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.

My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

All my friends are so small town.

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.