#small town

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#arm #broke #came #elbow #father

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#career #family #find #forward #get

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#get #instead #lot #more #neighbors

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#basically #felt #i #kansas #like

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. ↗

— Faith Hill

#ball games #children #everybody #football #football games

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#any #becomes #boarding #boarding school #certain

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#depressed #i #main #main street #really

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.' ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#bat #because #children #everyone #gay

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#art #art form #dad #did #doing

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports. ↗

— Martina McBride

#good #high #high school #i #important