Quotes About Community

as the Links, the Knickerbocker, and the New York Athletic Club continued to exclude Jews from membership.

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.

Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

It has long been my dream that one day Americans of all ages, creeds and colors will be practicing taijiquan in the parks of this nation as they do in China. Few places in the world have such beautiful open spaces which can and should be used productively at no expense. The result would be tremendous improvement in mental and physical well-being.

There is no shame in seeking help. Asking for assistance is a sign of strength, not weakness.

I didn't want to go inside, to nod at condolences, to taste that mixture of casseroles and grief.

We are all here to serve each other. At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." —Jackie Robinson

And I'd tell you that changes nothing about how we should treat him if he came to us for help. We welcome the stranger. That's what we do.

You don't get older during the time spent in church, he told us. He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it. We gave him a dollar.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.

If I were the Minister for Propaganda, Robert – and I often feel it is a pity I am not – I would make everybody sing every day, provided, of course, that enough saint-like Conductors could be found to go round.

The women congregated in the kitchen or, in warm weather, sat in rocking chairs on the shady porches. The few men present squatted and talked in the yard or sat on a porch on the opposite side of the house.

As this poem illustrates, place is not just location, geography; place is history, family, the shape and context of daily life.

The shift in the landscape of religious belief and practice is nothing less than a shift in worldview. People are changing the way they think about religion and religious practice, who is "us" and who is "them," and whether such distinctions make sense in a global, interdependent environment. Wayne

I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too.