#hometown

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

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. ↗

— Fred Willard

#history #hometown #indians #narrow #rich

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

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me. ↗

— Columba Bush

#back #bush #dated #forth #hometown

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#bus #elite #four #go #high

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things. ↗

— Faith Ford

#hometown #keeps #me #mother #things

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

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

— Evel Knievel

#feel #guys #hometown #i #know