Quotes About Community

Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.

I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because I was rejected by the black community. They were like, 'You talk like a white girl.' People would call me an Oreo. All I wanted was acceptance.

As I grow older, it's getting more and more important to me. I'm becoming conscious and learning to celebrate where I'm from and my roots. I think I rejected it to an extent when I was young, because it was different, and you want to fit in and look like other kids.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.