Community Quotes

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

I feel a responsibility to make sure that the voices from our community are heard. I do not feel a responsibility to agree with them. No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

If we can find peace within ourselves, within our families and communities, and heal Mother Earth in small ways, we can create a measurable shift in our world.

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too.

The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

I really hope that the fashion community will not accept anything that does not represent everyone.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.