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Quotes About Community

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.
~ Matthew Desmond
And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.
~ Robert Grosseteste
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
~ Dries Mertens
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
~ Irving Berlin
Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
~ LeBron James
I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side.
~ Luis Suarez
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.
~ Jagmeet Singh
I was always the kid dribbling the ball on the sidelines, hoping someone would pick me. I'd go with my older brother to the gym or park, and when I went out there, I'd pass the ball so I could get picked again.
~ John Stockton
Giving back to those in need is something that everyone on all sides of the political aisle can relate to, and it is beautiful to see people come together, especially during the holiday season.
~ Ainsley Earhardt
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.
~ Chen Shui-bian
My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six.
~ Winnie Harlow
I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.
~ Lou Holtz
I think if I have learned one thing from all of my family members, both sides of it - my mom's side, my dad's side and everyone else - it's that every one of us has a responsibility to do what we can to contribute back and make our communities and our country a better place.
~ Joe Kennedy III
You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
~ Noel Gallagher
I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.
~ Lupe Fiasco
I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.
~ Crystal Bowersox
If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.
~ Ayman Odeh
I've been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I've had a front row seat to lots of things in life.
~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.
~ Kelela
There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.
~ Stephanie Beatriz
There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love each other and help each other, kind of like a messed up extended family.
~ Pete Holmes
It's easy to look at South Central and say, 'That's a bad place,' and it's easy to look at Beverly Hills and say, 'It will be a cakewalk,' but it just exposed me to a different set of problems. Both sides relate to each other more than they think.
~ Spencer Paysinger
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.
~ John Updike
You have to let folks know that it's not OK... to live on a sidewalk in front of somebody's house or in front of somebody's business if we have provided a safe, clean, sanitary place for you to go.
~ Kevin Faulconer