Quotes About Community

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

In a small town, everyone works together and does life together, and because of that everyone takes care of each other. That's Iowa. Whether it's Des Moines or Sioux Center, Decorah or Davenport, Iowans exhibit those small-town values. They work hard, but not so much for themselves. They're ambitious, but not at the expense of others.

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

I guess more than anything, Green Bay just felt like home. You know, small town, good people who love their football... it was a really great experience being a part of that culture.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.

My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.

I was never the star of my team, not even in my small town.

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.