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Home is ... Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Cleveland. Philadelphia is not dull, it just seems that way because it is next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. New York: The only city where people make radio requests like -This is for Tina - I am sorry I stabbed you. Carol Leifer The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe. Frank Rizzo A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. Burt Bacharach Hollywood: A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth.S.J. Perelman In America, everything goes and nothing matters. While in Europe, nothing goes and everything matters. Philip Roth Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. C.V.R. Thompson Montana - at least our cows are sane! Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. John F. Kennedy I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Billy Bob Thornton I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. Patrick Buchanan The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Bacon What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. A. Robert Turgot But it does move. Galileo Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth. Archimedes Great God! This is an awful place. (The South Pole) Robert Falcon Scott Nighthawks at the diner, of Emma's 49er, there's a rendezvous of strangers around the coffee urn tonight. Tom Waits In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure-dome decree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge We live in an environment whose principle product is garbage. Russell Baker Here I am, and here I stay. Maurice de MacMahon What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is there's nothing to compare it with. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughn We must never lose our sense of awe at the magnificence of our planet. The whole world's in a state o- chaos. Sean O'Casey Is there anybody out there? Pink Floyd Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Rudyard Kipling I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. Socrates Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. Horace Greeley Knoxville, '96: I have entered God's country, Trees roll over the mountains. Ron Sitton Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/whome.html |