Quotes About Community

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.

Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.