Quotes About Community

I hope to make clear that involvement in small scale community work can make a difference in our city's politics.

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

When we talk about big issues like climate justice, of course that involves global and statewide implications. But it's also how we double our street-tree canopy to clean the air. It's converting to electric school buses. All of these issues at the city level start from the day-to-day impacts on people's lives.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Altruism, especially involving basic freedoms, can be what shareholders value most.

I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. It's much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it's an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that's not a videogame.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'

You will see us going forward talking about those things to bring Iran in compliance: not just of the deal, but of the international community and what is expected to be a good community citizen.

Gujarat is a state which gave shelter to Parsi community who came from Iran; this is not the tradition and heritage of Gujarat.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

I think football gave Iranians a reason to once again think about their country.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.