Quotes About Community

Discovering a biblical self-image in Christ increases your dependency upon Him and decreases an unhealthy dependency upon one another. I

I find that rockclimbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10,000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players. —John Salathé, 1974

Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You're going to see all these people again.

In the blogosphere, there's no such thing as competition.

I dream of a simple church marked by the simple proposition that we are "otherly.

Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work

Before he even arrived, he sent each top police official a framed, hand-embroidered motto: Police Unto Others As You Would Have Them Police Unto You. What did that mean? Don't arrest anybody because you wouldn't like to be arrested?

To a little girl I never met who caused so many to reflect within themselves; and to those cops and prosecutors across the country who do the right thing: day in, day out.

17.14) "The uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people." An uncircumcised boy is to be abandoned by his parents and community.

Shaylene knew of three children in Norwalk besides Lolek who came down with the fever during the past few years. One of those children, a four-year-old girl, tragically died because of it.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends. —Euripides

The telephone company is urging people not to use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary, in order to keep the lines open for emergency calls. We'll be right back after this break to give away a pair of Phil Collins concert tickets to caller number 95. -unidentified radio disc jockey after the 1990 Los Angeles earthquake

The Pack is gathering. There can be no culls among us.

I would love one day for us to all get in to drag together and all hang out. Wouldn't that be fun, me and Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in drag skipping around the city?

I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.

I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

As Americans, we're raised with this idea of, 'We're number one.' As an individual, you absorb and you consume until you skyrocket to the top with your money and your whatever. That's not my philosophy. My philosophy is quite the opposite in that there's limited space, we have limited resources, and so it's not about the individual.

I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.