Community Quotes

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

To be political actually means to care about your community.

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.

I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.