Quotes About Community

Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.

Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

In her perseverance, she also devised a novel fund-raising scheme: gather a hundred rich Jews from Palestine into a room and do not allow them to leave until each signs a check for a thousand pounds.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

God makes us a new creation in Christ, forgiving our sins and forming us into the Church. The purpose of evangelizing is to make Jesus Christ known and to invite people to be part of the company of his disciples in the Church. The motive of evangelizing is gratitude for what Christ has given us. The method of evangelizing entails our own personal renewal in the faith and in living Christ's life in his body, the Church.

The Church is founded upon God's self-revelation to his people. This revelation is made in events in which God intervenes in human history, acting to unite people to himself here and for all eternity. People gather around these events and become a community, God's people.

We are nowhere more together than in prayer with and to the Mother of our Lord.

The problem with this understanding of autonomy is that shared values serve the important function of making social life possible.

diversity cannot be the basis for identity in and of itself; it is like saying that our identity is to have no identity; or rather, that we should get used to our having nothing in common and emphasize our narrow ethnic or racial identities instead.