Genevieve Gorder Quotes

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

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

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

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

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

The country life near Manchester I really love.

Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

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

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

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.

I have friends, I'm from Texas originally, and they follow me and they keep up with what I'm doing.