Quotes About Community

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.