Community Quotes

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.