Quotes About Community

We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community.

I've grown up with the same people my whole life. I've had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

I've been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.

You can be in the Bay and sell 10,000 copies of independent records and make 50 grand and that's your job for the year. The shows you do off of that and them 10,000 sales is gonna feed you and your homies.

To have a home Grand Prix is awesome, so just to go there is already a buzz.

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

I like being on my own, but at times when I don't, I'll phone a friend or the grandchildren.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

My little brother and grandma told me I could sing. I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.

My dad is a mechanic from Sheffield and my grandmother lives in Rotherham, bless her.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.

It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.

My administration is committed to ensuring Granite Staters have access to clean water.