Quotes About Community

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

There is no life without friendship

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

God, I had great people in my life.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

The best ways to motivate human beings are the oldest ways, tapping into timeless needs and emotions: hunger, thirst, fear of death, sex, beauty, identity, status, respect, honor, shame, love, compassion, community, fun. All of these tie back, directly or indirectly, to those most fundamental and evolutionary of motivations: survival and reproduction. The secret is learning how to tap these ancient motivations, and harnessing them to achieve modern goals.

In Truk, located in the Marshall Islands, people have traditionally believed in an outer world that corresponds in some ways to our modern conception of outer space.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.