#hometown

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you. ↗

— Jewel

#always #consider #debt #feel #home

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it? ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#roots #family

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#different #hometown #little #makes #more

For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary pleasures of puberty, where flowers rusted and salt corroded, where nothing had happened for four centuries except a slow aging among withered laurels and putrefying swamps. In winter sudden devastating downpours flooded the latrines and turned the streets into sickening bogs. In summer an invisible dust as harsh as red-hot chalk was blown into even the best-protected corners of the imagination by mad winds that took the roofs off the houses and carried away children through the air. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#age

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. ↗

— Rick Danko

#after #booked #dover #eve #first

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#beaten #dodging #few #getting #guys

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal. ↗

— Hannibal Buress

#deal #hometown #i #kind #medium

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. ↗

— Ang Lee

#air force #bases #force #hometown #major

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#feel #guys #hometown #i #know