Wal-Mart is giving capitalism a bad name. Its lost touch with its small-town roots and has become a company that is depending on corporate welfare ... and an all-too-cozy relationship with China.
Quotes about small-town (16 Quotes)
He does a great job. He's still the same guy I knew when he was 18 years old at Southern Illinois. He's a hard-working guy. Very thorough, very sincere. He's a small-town guy who has a passion for coaching basketball.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
TV is the way of taking this small-town festival in California and sharing it with the world.
It's gotten an amazing reception. It's about the 50th anniversary of a little beauty pageant in a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania, ... It's a real homage to small-town America.
As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.
Briarcliff citizens need to pay more attention to the caucus. It's specially attuned to the needs of small-town government and it has worked well with some minor interruptions for more than a century.
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
After 911, there was a real shift toward family-oriented travel. Visiting small-town America became more popular as people were looking for a piece of Americana. You have your big all-American cities, but the majority of the country is small areas with fun events and cultural traditions that are a draw these days.
Most people are here because they don't want to live in a big city. They don't care about bistros or the opera. They care about the mountains . . . and letting their kids play in the front yard, ... If things get too big, we'll lose that small-town charm.
You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that will happen in Merced, too.
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
There will always be people who move here, find nirvana and then want no more. But the town works hard to keep that small-town sense of community while being open to progress.
Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.