118 Quotes About Small-town

To play catch on an evening, to smell the river, to hear the train pass. These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace.

People like to talk in the valley. It's very reverberant.

He kept her shielded but didn't clip her wings.

I wonder if the small town isn’t, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?

I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.

I’m not a humming-bird. I’m a hawk; a tiny leashed hawk, pecked to death by these large, white, flabby, wormy hens.

So kindly,” Carol mused, “so well meant, so neighborly – and so confoundedly untrue. Is it really my failure, or theirs?

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.

There is only one good thing about a small townYou know that you want to get out- Songs for Drella