Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

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.

Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

In Hawaii, after somebody introduces themselves, the next question is, 'What high school did you go to?' From there, it's either 'Oh, OK, it's cool, I know some family,' or it's trash-talking to the max, like 'my school is better than your school.' This is how it kind of is back there.

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

I just want my hometown talking about where I'm going - like, 'He's killin' it right now,' and, 'I'm so glad he's doin' well,' and I want them to know I'll always come back, every chance I get. I'm not one of those people who'll just leave.

Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

We're just Southern people.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.

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

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

Society tells you home is where you grew up or where you settled, but nah. I have friends all over the world. Maybe I have a billion homes.

I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.

A lot of people from Buffalo haven't even been outside of Buffalo. Probably 75% of Buffalo never even been in New York City. We just come from a different kind of place. You just have to be from there to kind of understand that.

Few of my classmates looked like me. While we shared similar aspirations and many good times, there's much to be said for making any challenging journey with people of the same cultural background.

People don't understand that Las Vegas is such a small community, beyond the tourists who visit here. If you've lived here for a long time, you know everybody.

I think the idea that the community you live in is an extension of your family is a really nice thing for people to think about and to wish for in their own lives.

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!