Small Community Quotes

We [the Senate] are a small town of 100 people. It makes no sense to not get along with others.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

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

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

The world is small, and the film industry is even smaller. So, if someone does something wrong, you really can't hide it, and if it's good work, it also can't remain hidden.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

The NFL is a brotherhood - if you think about all the millions of people that live in America and there's 1,900 people in the NFL. That's not that many, so everybody knows each other.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

I live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your feet on the ground, basically.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.

I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.