37 Quotes About Small Towns

The smallest towns in the world can draw in the biggest opportunities. These quotes about small towns will remind you of the charm that they offer.

“A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.”

“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.”

“Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely.”

“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it’s a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is.”

“Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.”

“Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.”

“Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.”

“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”

“Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.”

“I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it’s still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. ”

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.”

“I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.”

“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.”

“I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.”

“I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor.”

“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.”

“I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.”

“It sounds like a cliche, but it… you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.”

“It’s a small town, it has only a few docks … now they are in a trap.”

“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.”

“Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things – the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.”

“Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.”

“Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.”

“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.”

“Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It’s truly a small town with a huge backyard.”

“Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.”

“Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs.”

“Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.”

“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in – there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.”

“The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.”

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

“What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I’ll die in a small town. When I can’t move my bones around a stage any more, you’ll find me living in a place that’s spread out and rural and spacious.”

“When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town.”

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”

“You know how gossip is. It’s the toxic waste of small town.”

“Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy.”

Attracting people to a small town can be a difficult task.