Quotes About Community

Beer, if you have it.

You came to this clan willing to set aside your hatred or fear.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.

It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.

This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally." "How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?

Chez Paolo," Grandmère said. Chez Paolo means "Paul's house.

Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.

Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne

We're artists, Jo. We have to help one another in our hours of need, not tear each other down.

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it's too homo for them to handle.

Wong Fong from Hong Kong.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

There is a razor-thin line between trying to find something usefully redemptive in illness and lying to ourselves about the nature of suffering. Until we mourn what is lost in illness—and until we have a medical community that takes seriously the suffering of patients—we should not celebrate what is gained in it.

Elevating such extraordinary figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and concentrating on their accomplishments to the exclusion of the foot soldiers who sustained the Civil Rights Movement, for example, implies that only a few people are called to change the world, especially within low-income and/or nonwhite communities, and that everyone else might as well stand aside.

I called my friends Sara, Nicole and Kayla.

Secret Santas?

He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

He tells me that he knows Max from freshman year—roughly twenty years—and I remember that a huge number of Oberlin friends are here and ask what bonds them all for life. He says No one else will be friends with us.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

Strength didn't have to mean facing danger alone. Strength came from trust, and friendship, and loyalty.