Larry the Cable Guy Quotes

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

It's kind of a camaraderie in the comedy community, people are kind of proud of how badly they go down sometimes, and it's quite nice to join in with that.

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.