Quotes About Community

Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan

GET OUT OF THE SUPERMARKET WHENEVER POSSIBLE.

TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world

We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people.

The people you spend time with make a significant impact on your state of mind and how you feel about yourself. Let this be the imperative of your business: Choose your clients as carefully as you choose your friends.

you are the company you keep.

Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal—that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone—is simply wrong.

So it was no cause and no country he fought for, no ideal and no justice. He fought for his people, for the children and the kin, and not even the land, because not even the land was worth the war, but the people were, wrong as they were, insane even as many of them were, they were his own, he belonged with his own.

I believe safety is the first thing you need to guarantee as mayor," she said.47

Also, as it came to be exposed later, some FSA-affiliated groups engaged in theft and robbery and claimed the Assad forces were behind it. As time went by, however, lawlessness became more pronounced and a major source of grievance for the local communities. Some FSA factions opted to leave the front lines and busy themselves with moneymaking activities in their areas. Factionalism, profit-making, and incompetence started to alienate people.

Can you really show me a single person, including yourself, including me, who, since the Vanishing, can't be said to belong to a cult? Even if it's a cult of one?

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool by which we communicate our wishes and our thoughts; it is our soul's interpreter: if we lack that, we can no longer hold together; we can no longer know each other. When words deceive us, it breaks all intercourse and loosens the bonds of our polity.

There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.

Open talk opens the way to further talk, as wine does or love.

Para mim, nenhum prazer tem gosto sem comunicação. Não me acorre um único pensamento espirituoso sem que me sinta agastado de tê-Io produzido sozinho, não tendo a quem o oferecer.

El sábado pasado, el palacio del Gran Duque estaba abierto y lleno de campesinos para quienes nada estaba vetado, y se bailaba por todas partes en la gran sala. La participación de este tipo de gente es, a mi parecer, una imagen de la libertad perdida, que se renueva así todos los años en la fiesta principal de la ciudad (...).

She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for.

This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats.

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony.

When you planted a dead person in the ground, there should be lots of people singing and dancing and eating nice food and telling stories while the sun beamed down.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me.