Quotes About Community

As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life.

Aren't we all 'Star Trek' fans? That's the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different - the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people.

What's impressed me about 'Star Trek' fans is how many generations they span and how many nations they represent. They are all over the place.

I think the reason why 'Star Trek' works so well was its small family feeling. The show felt small, you could see the mistakes, you could see rocks weren't rocks. You caught them at it all the time, but you didn't care because you were so hooked to the people and to the stories. It was a fabulous show.

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.