Quotes About Community

It's taco night at Portland Street.

Mrs. Donnelly lived here with her daughter, Sophie. And, of course, me, now. Sophie

We're not criminals. We're regular kids, like everybody else. Still, you probably don't want to mess with us . . . just to be on the safe side.

They agreed it was wrong to throw the stick, but insisted that Chase couldn't have predicted it would result in serious injury. Ha! The real reason was that Chase was the town sports hero—and the son of the last town sports hero. Chase's dad had a lot of admirers on that board. And my family didn't.

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

Why is it so hard to understand that we have to find a way to live together?

The tradition at C Average was to nominate the biggest loser in the building.

We are more than merely Lucian, Janus, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Madrigal. We are all Cahills, and we are under attack.

Our whole lives we were stuck in a town the size of a postage stamp

bucket-filler is someone loving and caring

I lost that feeling of belonging to something wonderful.

It doesn't come from posters, or streamers, or rallies, or funny hat days. And it definitely doesn't come from making an ungodly racket with a cheap plastic instrument of torture that was invented purely for disturbing the peace!

Most basic and dangerous of all was the Federalist creation of a huge perpetual federal debt, which, as New York governor George Clinton explained, not only would poison the morals of the people through speculation but would also "add an artificial support to the administration, and by a species of bribery enlist the monied men of the community on the side of the measures of the government. . . . Look to Great Britain.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Was heißt denn Volk? Sind Christ und Jude eher Christ und Jude, als Mensch? Ah! Wenn ich einen mehr in Euch gefunden hätte, dem es genügt, ein Mensch zu heißen!

If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.

This sect preaches that there is little true Islam in this world and that the only option open to the individual is to denounce contemporary Muslim society as "ignorant" or nonbelieving and to take refuge, either in a special righteous community (like Calvin's City of God) or, more commonly, within oneself, to find purity of belief and action against the corrupting influences of society.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people.

the Karens of Burma

This is what we are: a collection stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other.