Close-Knit Communities Quotes

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

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.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.