Quotes About Community

This idea of communion is what drives the best musical happenings. It's about breaking the audience/artist boundary, about being an event, not just watching one.

The crowd is not us. It never is.

Our 'Hooligans' go from bad to worse. They are an ugly growth on the body politic, and the worse circumstance is that they multiply, and that School Boards and prisons, police magistrates and philanthropists, do not seem to ameliorate them. Other great cities may throw off elements more perilous to the State. Nevertheless the 'Hooligan' is a hideous excrescence on our civilization. The Times [London], October 30, 1890

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them'. Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us'. But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more." - Bill Clinton

The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.

Music has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.

Every car on every train on every line holds a surprise, a random sampling of humanity brought together in a confined space for a minute or two - a living Rubik's Cube.

I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say, New Yorkers—will take care of you.

To be a New Yorker is to be away from the city and feel like you are missing something

everything. It requires a certain kind of unconditional love to love living here. But New York repays you in time in memorable encounters, at the very least. Just remember: Ask first, don't grab, be fair, say please and thank you, always say thank you—even if you don't get something back right away. You will.

Sometimes it will be difficult and you'll question why you ever moved here. But New York will always answer you. Yes, remember that. New York will always answer you.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Discipleship isn't a program or an event; it's a way of life. It's not for a limited time, but for our whole life. Discipleship isn't for beginners alone; it's for all believers for every day of their life. Discipleship isn't just one of the things the church does; it is what the church does.