Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

We came from a small village and there is no music business there.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

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

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

I'm from a small town - Niagara, outside of Toronto. When I was a kid, I thought it was really boring, but it ended up being a big blessing because I got to know myself at a young age.

Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.

Panchayat' is set in a village and is the story of an urban man coming to the village.

I want my songs to be enjoyed by those who travel in a town bus and they should be played repeatedly in a tea shop.

There is something about being in a remote town where anything other than green fields, trees and Saturday football club is very exciting and thrilling.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.