Kim Edwards Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 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.

When I was on Taransay, I loved being part of a community, I loved that everyone knew what I was doing, where I was going. I loved that. I liked knowing that if I wasn't back at a certain time people would start worrying a little bit about me, I loved the whole community thing, sitting for hours and chatting to people.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

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

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

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

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

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

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

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

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

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.

Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.

New Zealand - it's very tight-knit, and everyone knows each other.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.