Quotes About Community

Part of being a player is trying to affect the community you're in and helping people. If there's one kid I can help, I feel like I did my job.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I'd be helping people.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

God blesses him who helps his brother.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate to reach out to others because we may think - they're not going through the same experiences I am.

There is so much frustration in the heterosexual male community manifesting in different ways, whether it be aggression or sexism or racism. I'm not saying all heterosexual men are that way, but you do see a lot of it.

I used to think I was tough, but there's a difference between bravado and courage, and I only started to show courage when I began to get help. So now I make a point of telling people, 'Hey, it's a good thing to ask for help, not a bad thing.'

I have great tenants. They've all become my friends. They call me and say, 'Hey Kev, we've got a drip!'

That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!