Quotes About Community

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

The community is eminently Portuguese—that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold

The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

Talk? Well, it's just Muff Potter, Muff Potter, Muff Potter all the time. It keeps me in a sweat, constant, so's I want to hide som'ers." "That's just the same way they go on round me. I reckon he's a goner. Don't you feel sorry for him, sometimes?" "Most always—most always. He ain't

Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven.

The hotel-keeper, the postmaster, the blacksmith, the mayor, the constable, the city marshal and the principal citizen and property holder, all came out and greeted us cheerily, and we gave him good day.

Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one.

Company would be a palpable improvement

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities.

White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking

Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had; therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

Island under French control—which means a community which depends upon quarantines, not sanitation, for its health.

A Church committee.

Rocky Mountain etiquette required of a spectator was, that he should help the gentleman bury his game—otherwise his churlishness would surely be remembered against him the first time he killed a man himself and needed a neighborly turn in interring him.

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

Las monarquías, las aristocracias y las religiones se hallan todas basadas en ese enorme defecto de vuestra raza, a saber: la desconfianza que cada cual siente de su convecino, y su deseo, por propia seguridad o comodidad, de hacer buen papel ante los ojos de ese convecino.

The passengers are not garrulous, but still they are sociable.

It always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around.

The place I felt most welcome and comfortable was AA meetings, even though there was a sticky-sweet optimism there I found insufferable.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.