Quotes About Community

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

It was the Baptists who preached a kind of Social Gospel that captured my attention and imagination.

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.

I think the charity side of things for me is very important, because if you're not giving something back, there's an imbalance somewhere in your life.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody who lived there.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge.

In Toulouse, you immersed yourself in the culture of the place.

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

There's a lot of negative speak about what it means to be an immigrant. I'm like, 'OK, I don't know where that came from.' We do the dirty jobs. We do the good jobs. We get the job done.

I want to present the immigrant community in more of a real light.

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.

What any immigrant is after is a taste of home.

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

Brick Lane' is actually a place in London where many Bangladeshis live. It is about one such Bangladeshi immigrant family.