Community Quotes
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.
The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.
Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.
At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.
I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.
The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.
Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.
Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.
Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.
Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.
I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.
I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have
I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.
I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.
It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.