Quotes About Community

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be led to attribute their plight to strangers in their midst.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Tolerance is forced on people in London.

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.

Illinois is becoming more diverse, more tolerant, and even more green.

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

There's some basic ideals that we should be able to agree on as Americans: We don't tolerate violence on our streets.

Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace.

Only if we stand together as one voice, can we ensure that the message is sent and that hate will not be tolerated no matter where it lives in our society.

Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.