Quotes About Community

Friendship is the foundational block for building all relationships.

Value the friends God gives you.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

The essential fascination of any exotic place is its people and culture.

Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.

Supposedly nobody outside the group knew there was a group. Of course we all knew that wasn't true. High school was like the little clear plastic tunnels that Paul's hamsters lived in: you could run a long way but never get out, and always, everyone could see you.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

Lots of nuns around lately. Suppose there's a convention or something?" – Alaric or Leo.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers.

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is 'What would you like to drink?

The South is one big drag show, honey [...].

Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone. Time

? m?s? gyvenim? ?eina tiek kit? gyvenim?, kad j? nesuskai?iuosi.

Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.

Apart from Scientologists and born-again Christians, junkies are probably the worst people in the world to live with. Even other junkies will tell you that.

The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly.

It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.

The living tradition we share draws from many sources …

Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves.

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.

But it takes nothing away from self-sufficiency to be able to work with like-minded souls and, as we have all learned, a community is strengthened when its people deal with hardship together.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.