Anna Nicole Smith Quotes

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.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.

My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry. When I step out of my house to go for coffee on Saturday mornings, I might say hi to 20 people before I get to the cafe. I think they feel they own me, in a way.

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.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

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 loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.

I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.

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.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

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

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

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

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

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

I'm from such a little place, most people live and work there their whole lives.

L.A. feels like a really small town to me.

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.

I'm really proud to be from Bolton. Population-wise it's the biggest town in Europe but you feel you live in a village - you'll always find yourself beside someone you went to school with.

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers.

In a close-knit community like Jasper, every loss feels personal.