Quotes About Community

The studies show essentially that a child is better off in a good neighborhood in a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood in a good family.

paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.

BaÅŸar? sadece kendi eserleri deÄŸil. Ä°çinde büyüdükleri dünyan?n bir ürünü.

remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see

Italian Roseto. Roseto, Pennsylvania, was its own tiny, self-sufficient world—all but unknown by the society around it—and it might well have

particular egalitarian ethos of the community, which discouraged the wealthy from flaunting their success and helped the unsuccessful obscure their failures. In transplanting

garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant—given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and

We accept the fact that being a parent requires a fundamental level of trust in the community of people around your child. If every coach is assumed to be a podophile, then no parent would ever let their child leave the house. And no sane person would ever volunteer to be a coach. We default to truth even when that decision carries terrible risks because we have no choice. Society cannot function otherwise.

He'd had to make his way alone, and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.

Rarely does someone start a revolution alone, at his mother's kitchen table.

she would let you stand in the second balcony, without a ticket. Carnegie Hall didn't know about it. It was just between you and Mary. It was a bit of a journey, but we would go back once or twice a month."* Friedman's mother was a Russian immigrant. She barely spoke English. But she had gone to work as a seamstress at the

Their success was not just of their own making. It was the product of the world in which they grew up.

community, which

When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced. They went to conferences where their peers were presenting long rows of data arrayed in

They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

They had to look beyond the individual. They had to understand the culture he or she was a part of, and who their friends and families were, and what town their families came from. They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Bir aile bir diÄŸer aileyle sava??yorsa bu bir kan davas?d?r. Ayn? daÄŸ çevresinde konumlanm?? küçük kasabalar içerisinde pek çok aile birbiriyle sava??yorsa bu bir modeldir.

We have no choice but to talk to strangers in our modern, borderless world. We aren't living in villages anymore. Police officers have to stop people they don't know. Intelligence officers have to deal with deception and uncertainty. Young people want to go to parties explicitly to meet strangers... Yet at this most necessary of tasks we are inept. We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can't (p. 342).

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

We all like chicken

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.