Town Quotes

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Mean, Off, Left

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Greatest, Down

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Pet, Gossip, Real

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

Single, Worth, Interest

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok

Family, Home, Reality

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Live, Gossip, Ashamed

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Family, Live, Gossip

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson

Person, Put, Vacation

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers

Times, Read, Newspaper

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

Tomorrow, Internet, Becoming

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Father, Everything

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Small, Learned

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Great, May, Free

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater

Politics, Women, Government

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley

Night, Country, Away

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Quentin Tarantino

Crazy, Small, Old

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
Jim Carrey

Work, Power, Hope

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
Jim Carrey

Everything, Done, Around

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg

After, Hell, Place

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns

Sunday, Year, Spent

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
Chris Rock

Two, Same, Used

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
Dolly Parton

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.
Ellen DeGeneres

Men, School, Wife

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
Steve Martin

Love, Woman, Making

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

Poetry, Rain, Between

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James

Football, Team, Knew

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Bo Bennett

Time, History, Car

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
Linda McCartney

Peace, Live, Fire

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
Henny Youngman

Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth

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