Quotes About Community

In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

As Christians, we are responsible for our fellow brothers and sisters suffering and fighting for the basic resources we all need to survive. To deny this is to turn a deaf ear to God's teachings.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

People are proud to be from Baltimore. In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. And this city has that support for anyone who was born here or lived here. And it also gives you the feeling, 'Oh, I stand for this place. And if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' And I want to make Baltimore proud.

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive.

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

In America especially, if you're Chinese and you work at a restaurant, there's a certain connotation among the Chinese immigrant community: It's the first generation that opens restaurants as a way to survive. You open to support your family so your kids can become doctors and lawyers.

If the E.U. is to survive... it is based on the fact that for every community that belongs in Europe, there is a place in Europe.

That's what Watts stand for, it taught me how to survive it taught me how to be a man.

We need to ask ourselves what kind of systems and structures we want in place - not only for people to survive, but also to thrive and reach their full potential.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

I don't like being alone, so I want to share these experiences and things with as many people as possible, so that is why I choose to go to the Moon with artists!

When 'Toast' got on Netflix, I noticed a difference. It was something I thought that only myself and a few people would find funny, and suddenly it's on a very large platform. Now it kind of belongs to everyone.

As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.