Quotes About Community

Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

While the people of Madrid seem to have resigned to selling almost anything - the one thing they have never given up on so far - is time. It is the one commodity that is never sold and always shared.

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

To all the readers, whom despitethe attraction of tv, of internet, of family troubles, of video games, of sport, of night clubs, have found some hoursso we can all dream together.

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.

Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.

Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake.

I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.