Quotes About Unity

When one suffers, all are weakened, but when everyone thrives, we dance.

His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause. -General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge

WE ARE THE HORNETS, HORNY, HORNY HORNETS!

The American Revolution was the last war in which black and white Americans served in integrated units until the Korean War in 1950.

At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

they turned up Regent Street, braced together against the sway of the pavement. [The Language of Bees, chapter 19]

Great system: the poison and the antidote come in the same bottle

The accumulator, with his acquisitions stuffed into boxes in no apparent order, is every bit as acceptable a philatelist as the collector trying slowly and painstakingly to fill, with flawlessly centered, post office-fresh examples, all the spaces in a single hingeless album. We're all in this together, and I figure whatever system we devise for ourselves is just fine.

thought of the classic definition of a Unitarian:

One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.

Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

and all at once it seemed that past and present had joined again without any divisions in it, and that all my memories and impressions had ordered themselves into one complete pattern whose metaphor was always the shining city of the disinherited — a city now trying softly to spread the sticky prismatic wings of a new-born dragonfly on the night.

A city becomes a world when one loves its inhabitants.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.