Quotes About Community

A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.

The South Coast is not teeming with fish any more; there are no fleets of trawlers left. Small local boats land their fish daily and often sell it at the back of the beach, a scenario repeated all the way from West Bay to Whitstable.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly.

I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

Nothing can replace cinema halls.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

The goal is to make sure everyone has got their lead pipes replaced, and I know that's moving forward in the city of Flint. My job is to make sure that we have accountability and ensure we are getting the job done.

One of the things that we've got to understand... is that politics of identity has never gone away. And where people have had a strong identity, geographically, culturally, in terms of their employment... if that's gone and not being replaced by something else, then I think the right-of-centre's got to wake up to that.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

We try and reply to as many fans as we can, especially on Twitter.

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.