Quotes About Community

A man's life is of many flashing moments, and yet one stream; a nation's flows through all its citizens, and yet is more than they.

THE ENEMY …We do refrain from using this term in reference to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as we count so many of their number as alumni.

But the cosmonaut Aleksandr Aleksandrov summed up the principal message for millions of people. Looking down on America and then in Russia, he saw the first snow and imagined people in both countries getting ready for winter. "And then it struck me that we are all children of our Earth. It does not matter what country you look at. We are all Earth's children, and we should treat her as our Mother.

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

And everybody knows a party means food!" Liberty yelled, causing a passing woman in a velvet dress to drop her fan to the ground.

I am most at home in small places—Shamli and Saharanpur; Darjeeling and Dehra; Karnal and Kasauli; Meerut and Mussoorie….These are the places I know best, and where I have found my friends and heroes, and my stories.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part of mankind.

As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.

Shake off that fit of depression. Go for a walk. Look at the busy people on the street, in the shops, in the fields. Are they depressed? They don't have time for it.

I have written about moonlight bathing the Taj and the sun beating down on the Coromandel coast—and so have others—but who will celebrate little Fosterganj? And so I decided to write this account of the friends I made there—a baker, a banker, a pickpocket, a hare-lipped youth, an old boozer of royal descent, and a few others—to remind myself that there had been such a place, and that it had once been a part of my life.

In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.

Remember, they lived in the drainpipes, too.

Being a misfit in a group of boisterous party-goers can be a lonely experience. But being alone as a matter of choice is one of life's pleasures.

Along its banks, for hundreds of miles, lived millions of people, and Sita was only one small girl among them, and no one had ever heard of her, no one knew her—except for the old man, the boy and the river.

live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer.

I believe in local control of education.

At the age of twelve [his daughter] Mary Rodgers Guettel asked her father whether he believed in God and he answered that he believed in people. 'If somebody is really sick, I don't pray to God, I look for the best doctor in town.

No pau hana is complete without the pupu.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia, now. He that can give to his city any blessing, he who can be a good citizen while he lives here, he that can make better homes, he that can be a blessing whether he works in the shop or sits behind the counter or keeps house, whatever be his life, he who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked power. For the sake of personal liberty and free community, power ought to be divided and hedged. Might this slow the actions of the state? Well, be it so, Montesquieu thought: freedom is better than haste.