Quotes About Community

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Think about how often—before cell phones, before any kind of caller ID—you answered the landline as a child and had to have an exchange, however brief, with aunts or uncles or family friends. Even if it was that five-second check-in, How are you doing, how is school, is your mom around—it meant periodic real-time vocal contact with an extended community, which, through repetition, it reinforced.

But we were also Jewish, one of two Jewish families in our neighborhood, our complex, our compound, and the ovens had been active only fifteen years before.

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

One night, the Carlton Club was hit by a bomb. The members of the surrounding clubs, in pajamas and slippers, formed long lines to save the library from the flames, passing books from hand to hand and discussing the merits of each as they passed. Such

The other kids formed a roving pack, moving like one of those clusters of birds that seem to share a single, frantic brain.

Everything about the presentation--the openness, the involvement of the community, the methodical plan laid out for implementing the idea--was exactly what Ting considered science done right. Science in secret as dangerous, difficult to regulate, and people who relished secrecy usually had something to hide.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Will you be at the harvest, Among the gatherers of new fruits?

The school-children were in their uniforms. A cock crowed repeatedly. Mum got her tray together. I was ready for school. Mum went down the street, swaying, moving a little sleepily, with one more burden added to her life. She was merely a detail in the poverty of our area.

I went about the market confused by many voices that could have been Mum's, many faces that could have been hers, and I saw that her tiredness and sacrifice were not hers alone but were suffered by all women, all women of the marketplace.

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Obeying God is too hard. Trying to understand, and obey, the Scriptures will break you. If you go it alone.

You have a neighbor, who smokes in bed. . . . Suppose he sets fire to his house," I would say later in an interview. "You might say to yourself . . . 'I'm not gonna call the fire department. Let his house burn down. It's fine with me.' But then, of course, what if your house is made of wood? And it's right next door to his house? What if the whole town is made of wood?

Helping those hurt by change, and ensuring that its benefits are more widely shared, is the right thing to do;

The deepening slump was evident not only in government statistics but also in what we were hearing from business and community leaders around the country.

We were always looking for people who could bring knowledge of community banking to the Board,

it won't count for much in this office, but I have served two terms as an elected member of the Montgomery Township,

Being on a board of education is thankless but it's important service.

After all, who knows more about the local economy than a community banker?

also made me feel at home.

and parents would volunteer their time in lieu of paying the small tuition.

We all knew that we would meet those challenges more effectively if we worked together rather than operating in isolation.

Wall Street and Main Street are interconnected and interdependent,

The council is a remarkably flat organization, with everyone working collaboratively regardless of title or seniority.