Quotes About Community

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.

I know everyone is busy in life and for them to take out the time to still think about me and send me a card or a letter, that really meant the world to me. I'm grateful for that.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement