Quotes About Community

Home, you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.

There were many women in the Soviet scientific community, proportionately more so than in the United States. But they tended to occupy menial middle-level positions, and male Soviet scientists, like their American counterparts, were puzzled about a pretty woman with evident scientific competence who forcefully expressed her views.

In all our searching the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

We have to do all that we can to build ourselves up. In these trying times we live in, all that we have to cling to is - each other

The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.

Not enough of us are "beyond Sunday" Catholics, due primarily to a lack of evangelization.

To paraphrase a quote from Fog and associates (2005): if a school does not stand for something more profound than raising achievement levels, then it probably does not make a memorable difference to teachers, students, or parents.

This town has so many blessings from God, but if we do something stupid out of greed, we could destroy those blessings.

loved to go and make fun of the homecoming

Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind. Now there are none—small communities are the new rule of life. Some things are better left alone by everyone.

But sharing the uncertainty and danger made it more manageable than it would have been otherwise

We're all stuck in this world, and none of us made it the way it is. We don't like much about it, and I think if you want to live in it with some sense of responsibility, you have to find ways to keep it this side of becoming too insane.

Those they passed nodded politely or said hello, safe in the knowledge that all was right with the world, oblivious to the truth.

are connected by relationships and place and time; we are connected by shared experience. But in the end we are each our own person and ultimately alone.

our cooperation extends all around the globe. The next time you buy something—shoes, a computer, a bunch of bananas—look at where it was made. For most of us, it is impossible to survive without the help of thousands of strangers all over the world. We have never met these people, but they are enmeshed with us in globally extended networks

We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP

The interwovenness of our lives is the source of our solidarity. But it also lies at the root of our mutual harm.

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Rising to her feet, she shot the Bird Man a furious glare, and then stormed off toward Savidlin's house. She was glad to be away from Richard, to be away from watching those girls pawing him. Her fingernails dug into her palms, but she didn't notice as she marched past the happy people. The dancers danced, the drummers drummed, the children laughed. People she passed wished her well. She wanted one of them to say something mean so she would have an excuse to hit someone.