Tight-Knit Community Quotes

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

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.

Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

The coaching community is really tight-knit.

In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I come from a small village.

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

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.

What's special about Salt Lake, it's a small, tight-knit, close community.

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it like as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we like just send each other packages. If I'm thrifting and I find this great dress but it won't fit me and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.