Quotes by Small Town I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield. Christopher Robin Milne valley live small small-town I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring. Craig Sager small small-town boring fields I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him. W. G. Sebald small small-town grandfather father «1234