Community Quotes

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

If people knew the kind things my mom has done for the community and for families over the years, I think that they would be stunned.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

What keeps a nation strong is really the community. It is about people helping each other.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

The size of your community doesn't matter as much as the depth of your connection with them.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.

I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.