Quotes About Community

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.