Community Quotes

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want to use the word war on terror because he was raised in that community.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

I have two kids and they have the same rules. We have to do this as a community.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.