Quotes About Community

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.

Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more costly to sell products online, will be bad for Black women and our communities.

We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

Children there rowed boats, climbed trees, picked mussels, ending every summer day cleaned up and carrying the ice in the silver bucket, the Goldfish crackers, and the Scotch, down to the dock at six, where they'd stand ranged along the splintering wooden boards looking down at the white bodies of the flashing fish, while the grown-ups behind them drank as the sun fell into the sea. The Miltons of Crockett's Island.

Like a stone tossed into a flock of birds, talk startled swiftly into flight whenever the new postmaster was mentioned.

Curtailed, too, were hopes for a similarly democratic economy, based to any significant degree in joint local action in the interests of participating citizens. And yet, even in "failure," these movements profoundly altered the American system—at least for a time.

But the more isolated people are—the less sense of community and responsibility for one another they feel—the more they turn to money for their comfort and survival.

To cement the solidarity of their hunting parties, says Boehm, so all members would keep participating in the arduous and risky expeditions, members shared equally whatever meat they bagged—no matter who had delivered the death blow that day, or who had fashioned the spearpoint.

And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.

Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on the ground. And they carried them back to Tangierneck for a decent funeral. Then laid them to rest in Cleveland's Field. All Ol Jefferson could say was, "Did him the same way they did Bard Tom. Same way they did his father.

These other peoples might hate Vienna or think they did, but Vienna could not of its intrinsic being hate them for she was made up of them.

People here don't care about the countryside in any deep way, she says. They just want nice walks, nice views, and a tearoom. That

Rhea had understood then why people need friends. They need to be seen and known, and accepted nonetheless. Oh, how she'd craved that unburdening

Outsiders pretend to be insiders, and it makes them unlikable. Insiders pretend to be outsiders, and we love to play along.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together.

That's our story. How we became a we. And that's what we are these day. A we. When you're a group that can hear each other's thoughts, the line between I and We gets kind of blurry.

If a woman can't help another woman in trouble, where would we be?

She was lonely, but she'd never tell anyone that. If you admitted you were lonely, people assumed there was something wrong with you. The media talked about an epidemic of loneliness, and yet admitting that you felt that way was a statement of failure.

Comprendía lo que era la necesidad de estar rodeada de gente. A ella le pasaba lo mismo. No era que no pudiera estar sola, porque sí podía. Pero si le daban a elegir, siempre prefería estar con otras personas.

You don't always have to change the whole world," Paige murmured, "just a small part of it, and sometimes those changes are small but it doesn't make them less important. Without the cog, the wheel wouldn't move.

The golf links lie so near the millThat almost every dayThe laboring children can look outAnd watch the men at play.