Town Characteristics Quotes

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

We passed a sign for Boring, Oregon. We never went there, but I was positively enchanted with the idea that there was a town called Boring. 'Gravity Falls' is partially from what I imagine Boring might be like. Or maybe the opposite of Boring, Oregon, would be 'Gravity Falls.'

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Boulder is a very smart community.

I love L.A. for a couple of days - I like the healthy food - but it's a one-industry town.

Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.