Quotes About Community

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.

You have a lot of people asking for town halls with the purpose of disrupting a town hall.

I learned about fighting from taking on the National Front skinheads outside Ilford Town Hall in the 70s - they were big men and we were 14 or 15-year-old boys.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

Small towns are so rich.

Those who live in small towns definitely are the ones who have so much of apnapan, as compared to the cold-hearted people in metros such as Delhi or Mumbai.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

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.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.