Quotes About Community

The unemployed themselves suffer most from unemployment. But the rest of us are affected too. We pay for the benefits, the hospitalisation of those who become unwell, the policing. We may become victims of the crimes and we receive the everyday incivility.

I grew up in a kitchen that was the hub of the house and the crossroads of the entire neighborhood.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

Larkin arrived in Wellington on 1 December 1943, an inexperienced, unworldly young man of twenty-one. It was, on the face of it, an unpromising place to start a literary career. 'Too large to have the community spirit of a village and too small to engender the cultural activities of a larger town, it was an unremarkable little place with a built-in resistance to new ideas and even perhaps to newcomers.

I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would always endeavour to make my tenants follow me.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Some people say we've got a lot of malice,Some say it's a lot of nerve.But I say we won't quit movingUntil we get what we deserve.

one hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. —Coach John Wooden

Seja bom com os outros. A distância que você caminha na vida vai depender da sua ternura com os jovens, da sua compaixão com os idosos, sua compreensão com aqueles que lutam, da sua tolerância com os fracos e os fortes. Porque algum dia na vida você poderá ser um deles." - George Washington Carver

Social order is not the result of the architectural order created by T squares and slide rules. Nor is social order brought about by such professionals as policemen, nightwatchmen, and public officials. Instead, says Jacobs, "the public peace—the sidewalk and street peace—of cities … is kept by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves.

We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

Half the people in that stadium [LSU's Tiger Stadium] can't spell LSU. It doesn't matter. They identify with it.

One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220)

All it really seems to prove is that if you assemble a number of like-minded people, who share a certain view of sheltering and how it should be done, a test will confirm that they agree with each other most of the time about what sheltering means.

God gives us enemies to make sure there'll always be someone around who's interested in how we're doing.

You do know that deaf people we are the loudest, most stubborn, smartest minds whether born deaf or became deaf later on in life.

Not everything in life requires money to make an impact on someone's life, you would amaze yourself at the impact you make in your local community by simply inspiring just one person whether it's a compliment, encouragement, or being a new friend, etc. Savvy Turtle believes that the possibilities and growth are endless and it is on the journey to inspiration, success, and achievements

We do not live in a zoo so we will not act like it as a neighborhood, in order to be a great neighborhood each of us needs to do our part and start acting like it

Keep your crumbs and the seats at your table, I will go build my own table and seat all Savvy Turtle's like me and we will change the world for the better

No matter what political party you are with we all should not take politics with us everywhere we go making everything in life politically charged, We all need to take the politics everywhere idea and throw it so far down in the ocean that not even Jacques Cousteau will be able to find it