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.

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

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

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

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.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Being raised Christian and going to church in a small town, that has a lot to do with my makeup as a human being, and has a lot to do with my songwriting, too.

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.

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.

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 cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

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