Quotes About Community

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Food first, then talk. Life looks better on a full stomach. People become civilized when they break bread together. Margaret had taught me that.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.

Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.

But no one ever leaves the town where they grew up, not really, even if they go.

It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga, than teaser in Pilates, than the elliptical or the Reformer. Rebecca thought that if no one had thought of it yet, soon enough someone in the city would spearhead a craze for tree climbing in Central and Prospect Parks, and it would become the talk of every cocktail party: have you tried that large oak by the Sheep Meadow? Oh, it's completely changed my body.

Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it at all. You just wait for it to go away. You don't help. You don't listen. You don't call. You don't write. WE deal with it in our own way. WE deal with it. We girls. We make the meals and clean up the messes and take the crap and listen to you talk about how you're dealing with it in your own way. What way? No way!

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time I look at my diploma, I remember that I am still a student, still learning every day how to be human.

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.

Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?

All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers. Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.

There were three types of people in New York: people like Nora, who had found their home there; people who talked about how much they hated it and would always live and eventually die there; and people who always had one foot over the border, to Scarsdale or Roslyn or Boca Raton.

Their children, their dogs, and housing prices: the holy trinity of conversation for New Yorkers of a certain sort. For the men, there were also golf courses and wine lists to be discussed; for the women, dermatologists.

The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different.

Una elección es cosa muy seria, o al menos debería serlo, y cada uno debería votar según su propia conciencia y dejar que el vecino haga lo mismo.