Quotes About Community

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

My mama says you should never keep your troubles to yourself. She says if you share 'em with somebody, they get smaller.

Barbara O'Connor

Barbara O'Connor

more friends than I ever dreamed possible." Barbara Park is also the author of award-winning

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive.It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference , that's all.

One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.

The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party, however unpretentious, and that day had now arrived for Rupert Stonebird.

What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn't show a healthy curiosity about one's neighbours?

Four people on the verge of retirement, each one of us living alone, and without any close relative near – that's us.

Well, then, we may as well find somewhere to have tea. After spiritual comes bodily refreshment.

Whoever says that girls are kind has never lived among them.

But as far as I'm concerned, Mary is always going to look a lot like Imogene Herdman--sort of nervous and bewildered, but ready to clobber anyone who laid a hand on her baby.

She was a great cultivator of friends, a person who brought others together. Once you were in her life, she never let you drift out of it completely. (Hidden Beneath)

It wasn't that they were bad people. It just suddenly seemed to me that there wasn't much room in their world for anyone who wasn't just like them.

about things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with

Isolation is the dream killer. It will stop you every time.

We are certainly damaged people. The question is, finally, do we use that damage, that first-hand knowledge of oppression, to recognize each other, to do what work we can together? Or do we use it to destroy?

In fact, on the six-figure path, seeking support is not an option, but a requirement.

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library?

Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

In theory the Holy Roman Emperor exercised a temporal sway matching the spiritual rule of the Pope over the universal community under God.

Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.

Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.