Quotes About Community

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Union gives strength.

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.

How can I go on living here and suspecting everybody ?

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

What a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.

It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.…

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been. And though using slightly different phraseology, the subjects of conversation were the same.

The Captain's habit of letting off a revolver at real or imaginary cats was a sore trial to his neighbours.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

One does see so much evil in a village," murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.

The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear anything.

Snapshots were handed round. The menace of coloured transparencies was in the offing. All the enthusiasts wanted to show their own pictures, but to get out of being forced to see other people's.

Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.

Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction.

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly.