Quotes About Community

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

All kids love bikes and cars. But there was a guy in my local village, Tony, who gave me a go on a bike. My first proper motorbike was when I was about 12, but I'd ridden on his and he was the one who really got me into bikes.

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village - or to take down an injustice.

I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?'

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

I want to pass on my secrets to people who are going to say, 'I have realised that I love baking, and now I'm going to make my bread and sell it at the local farmers' market,' or who might say, 'I am going to use the local Post Office in our village to sell my cakes.' I want to give them that little bit of fire.

My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.

I was born in New York but grew up between Switzerland, where my mom is from, and Tunisia, where my dad is from. Now I live in the East Village in New York, in the same building where my parents lived when I was born, so I've come full circle in my life.

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

I come from a small village.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.