Quotes About Community

A pub can be a magical place.

I am much more happy in a country pub with 10 blokes having a pint than going to a night club.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and bought a pub, which he turned into an Arsenal pub.

Then started playing men's cricket when I was 15. That's when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don't really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.

It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.

Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

On a given day, if you go into town to a little quiet pub or restaurant you might be sitting next to Jurgen Klopp - that's the type of person he is. You might see him out. He is one for the people.

Radio 2 feels like I'm still at the pub with all my friends but now my father-in-law has joined the table. But I love it. If I was a stick of rock I'd have BBC written through me.

People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

The public is always good.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.