Quotes About Community

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.

My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, 'Don't Forget to be Awesome.'

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by 'being one of the boys.' In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.

Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.