Quotes About Community

The nice thing about a round table is that it can seat an almost infinite number of people, as King Arthur found out long ago.

It's amazing what you have to buy after a fire has completely wiped you out - things you never think about, like toothbrushes and boots and a dictionary. Of course, people gave us things, but mostly they didn't fit, and Mother said this was no time for us to go around looking like orphans of the storm.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." — Epictetus

Except she wasn't Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her husband, Rob, whose family was nearly as rooted in Bell Valley as the Bell family was, hence a questionable welcome there, too.

I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.

She described a little town in Maine, not much more than a handful of stores backed up to the shore of a lake. There were huge pine forests, long dirt roads leading to cabins in the woods, and skies so clear you could see the northern lights. She said she would live in one of those cabins and know everyone in town. She thought it would be the simplest, most beautiful life.

he couldn't deny the unexpected rush of pleasure at the pairing of his great-nephew with Lizbet Blythe's granddaughter. "One for you, Sam!" Daisy Vashon exclaimed from behind his right shoulder. The five of them—Sam, Daisy, JW Sterling, Lizbet and Hannah Sprite—were clustered around the computer screen in his garage at the Sunny Autumn Seniors Community in Port Aidin, Florida. "Logan Edwards and Jade Korrigan," Hannah read aloud from behind

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.

It's as if all our hearts are joined by invisible threads to that of the artist and together we form one huge heart.

Her favorite Irish saying was 'may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in want,

everyone hated her, and some people actually knew she was a good mother. It helped to rekindle her faith in herself. "I

Yes, everything begins in the human heart. But the human heart is not vacuum-packed. The pulsebeat from any breast, however armored, is felt, not just in private contract-"doomed commitments"- between private persons, but in Selma, in Haight-Ashbury, in Vietnam, in South Africa, in East New York. Reports from those locations are also reports from the heart.

Children who find a single important life in the ordinary, unimportant, and unheroic are less likely to succumb to the human fallacy of Us versus Them [Betty Levin, "Polars Bears and Lemmings"].

I mull that over. Amber treats everyone out here like normal people, not homeless street losers, and in return they give her their names.

Ceremony-the wine of human existence" - Morris R. Cohen

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.