Quotes About Community

I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.

My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.

I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.

One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.

The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.