Small Town

Famous quotes containing the words small town, small and/or town:

    These are the small townsmen of death,
    A man and a woman, like two leaves
    That keep clinging to a tree,
    Before winter freezes and grows black....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)