Small Quotes

• In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

  

  George Crumb
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Water

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • May
  • Business
  • Bigs

• I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

  

  Frederick Reines
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Game

• Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

  

  Saadi
  • Up
  • Habit
  • Fountain

• If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Earth

• Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Time
  • Small

• The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up.

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • Up
  • Work
  • Walking

• I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Small
  • Food
  • Doing

• I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Daily

• This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Value
  • Decision
  • Challenge

• I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Due to the efficient supervision of the Secretary of War the Army of the United States has been organized with a small body of Regulars and a moderate National Guard and Reserve. The defense test of September 12 demonstrated the efficiency of the operating plans. These methods and operations are well worthy of congressional support.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • War
  • Support
  • Army

• The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Beautiful

• I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Up
  • Small
  • Chicago

• 'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Night
  • Small
  • Thursday

• When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • Good
  • Power
  • War

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