Built Quote by Christine Jennings

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.

— Mark Lanegan

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is…

— Volker Bertelmann

They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone…

— Christine Jennings

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it…

— Dar Williams

I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the part of…

— David Berman

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the…

— Paul Goodman

I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all,…

— Michael Giles

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be…

— Robin McKinley

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

— Mary McAleese

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising…

— Anonymous

“are more open to the Christian faith than they were in their original context. Most have been uprooted from their familiar, traditional setting and…

— Timothy Keller