Quotes About Community

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he's woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it's that he's not alone.

Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it.

One of the things that makes folks even more jolly is knowing there're people who ain't.

Granny Weatherwax made a great play of her independence and self-reliance. But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant at . People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Oh, I daresay they're all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard.

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.

drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Om helps those who help one another.

Well,' said Tiffany, 'there's too much to be done and not enough people to do it.' The smile that the kelda gave her was a strange one. The little woman said, 'Do ye let them try? Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Well, I suppose there's no place like home,' she said. 'No,' said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. 'No, there's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

Why do you help these strangers? she asked Tiffany now. They are not of your clan. You owe them nothing. Well, said Tiffany, although they are strangers, I simply think of them as people. All of them. And you help other people--that's how we do it. Does every person do it? said Nightshade. No, said Tiffany. Sadly, that is true. But many people will help other people, just because, well, because they are other people. That's how it goes.

If you ask 10 nomes to push four will pull and two will say pardon

This is Lancre we're talkin' about. If we was men, we'd be talking about layin' down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.

It was amazing to see that all people needed to make them happy was food and drink and other people.

Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

As I am sure some of you know, I boast of the fact that for a couple of years I was a volunteer librarian, working weekends for no more reward than a cup of tea, a sweet biscuit, and a blind eye to the enormous number of books that I was taking home.

This was, after all, Ankh-Morpork, where a man walked free even if he was not, strictly speaking, a man.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

The barricade was taking some while to dismantle. Chair legs and planks and bedsteads and doors and baulks of timber had settled into a tangled mass. Since every piece belonged to someone, and Ankh-Morpork people care about that sort of thing, it was being dismantled by collective argument.

call it empathy. That means putting yourself in the place of the other person and seeing their point of view. I suppose it's because in the very olden days, when humans had to fight fir themselves every day, they needed to find people who would fight with them too, and together we lived—yes, and prospered. Humans need other humans—it's as simple as that.

old folks are s'pposed to like listenin' to the sound of children playin', I read that somewhere, I don't see why we should get told off 'cos we've got the wrong kind of old folks—

Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't been seen for years. They say she was done up good and proper by a couple of young tearaways." "Kids of today," commented Rincewind. "I blame the parents," said Twoflower.