Quotes About Community

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: "There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.

Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.

The clergy were to pray for all men, the knight to fight for them, and the commoner to work that all might eat.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

princes are instituted by God not to seek their own gain but the common good of the people.

Amy and Isaac Post

Like a mighty army moves the church of God; Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod. We are not divided, all one body we, One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.

That we may be able to profit by the experience of others, we are endowed with an instinct adapted to the purpose of drawing us into the company of our fellows--this is the social instinct.

Instead he'd "send his songs out there... tell 'em to stick together and look out for their brothers".

Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Coral Gables was successful from the start.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Here's the thing about baseball-it's not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter's box like a soldier and it's up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here's the thing I didn't understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

Another year down. Ten years. No one said anything. No one ever says anything. Nothing online. Nothing in the Sunday edition of the "Lowe County times"--"the Loco"--that Mom still has delivered every week. Memory holes are efficient.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor but bear no sin because of him. You

calling the Guantanamo prison "a gated timeshare community in the Northern Caribbean.