Quotes About Community

I love when the environmentalist David Orr says, "The planet does not need more 'successful people.' The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture defines it.

A threefold cord is not easily broken.

The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They

Beszélgessen idegenekkel. Akkor egyre kevesebben lesznek, és a világ is barátságosabbá válik.

It is very difficult for most healthy Americans to envision themselves as the ones whose liberty might be threatened in the effort to protect the health of the community. As a society, we have become masters of stigmatizing the sick and the contagious; we label them as separate from the mainstream.

I'm just glad I'm in a different cabin. It's easier if you're with other girls who are new, too. You don't have to worry as much about whether they like you." "I know what you mean," I said. Boy, could I tell you a thing or two about that!

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

California is full of homesick people.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Wir sind nicht einmal in der Lage, eine Familie zu gründen, geschweige denn, uns mit einer Partei zu identifizieren! [...] Wir wollen keine Gemeinschaft. Wir wollen unsere Ruhe.

Menschen brauchen einen Vorwand, um sich miteinander beschäftigen zu können.

Wir] leben alle von den Irrtümern, die unsere Mitmenschen über uns hegen.

Als ob eine Stadt mehr wäre als eine Ansammlung von haushoch gestapelten Heimatlosen.

Menschen brauchten Abstand voneinander. Gerhard hatte lange genug in Berlin gelebt, um das zu wissen.

young, old, British or foreign, the entire

But, as Guérin noted, 'When you sing in chorus you don't feel hunger; you aren't tempted to seek out the how and why of things. You must be right since there are fifty of you side by side, crying out the same refrain.

Love in any language, Straight from the heart, Pulls us all together, Never apart.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

People who love to eat are always the best people.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

You didn't realize it but you always were one of the Butcher's Boys. There you were, askin' to join the gang, when all along you were the 'eart and soul of it.

But when our voices join together The music sets us free.