Quotes About Community

Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody's mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible.

You know what the Indians say. You saved my life, now you've got to—" "Yeah, yeah, some hippie made that up.

Amare tenendo la bocca chiusa, aiutare senza rompersi il culo o renderlo noto a tutti: essere calmi, ma partecipi.

girls had turned overnight into whooping, hollering brides of the multitude.

gamers in the house forever

Drinks here weren't free, but by way of real-life neighborhood civility they were cheap enough.

It was summer, a weekday, and midafternoon; no time for any campus Oedipa knew of to be jumping, yet this one was. She came downslope from Wheeler Hall, through Sather Gate into a plaza teeming with corduroy, denim, bare legs, blonde hair, hornrims, bicycle spokes in the sun, bookbags, swaying card tables, long paper petitions dangling to earth, posters for undecipherable FSM's, YAF's, VDC's, suds in the fountain, students in nose-to-nose dialogue.

a child roaming the night who missed the death before birth as certain outcasts do the dear lulling blankness of the community...

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

Whites walk on eggshells for fear of being called racists, while many blacks are preoccupied with protecting the image of black students, rather than protecting their future by telling the blunt truth. It is understandable that some people are concerned about image, about what in private life might be expressed as: "What will the neighbors think?" But, when your children are dying, you don't worry about what the neighbors think.

The next time you see a bum leaving drug needles in a park where children play or urinating in the street, you are seeing your tax dollars at work and the end result of the vision of the anointed.

The community as a whole is better off or worse off according to whether or not the next generation is raised under circumstances that are more likely to produce productive citizens rather than parasites and criminals. Indeed, the less fortunate are the hardest hit by the consequences when social standards are compromise or jettisoned for the sake of cosmic concepts of equality.

The massive ethnic communities that make up the mosaic of American society cannot be adequately described as "minorities." There is no "majority.

languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers

Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to help support the fledgling little college established near the Charles River, early in the colony's history, by John Harvard.:`°

building and patronizing churches and schools, both of which were outstanding by the standards of the times.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Children have no frame of reference with which to understand that those rules are simply choices that his parents have made, and that other families and communities will have different styles of relating and behaving. His focus becomes narrow, he becomes less flexible, and may have trouble as an adult operating outside of the rules set for him by his parents.

My parents were deeply committed to service in the community – their willingness manifested in their volunteering and giving to others. But at home, the "struggle against" was pervasive because they never learned in their own dysfunctional families how to nourish themselves and other family members.

We find in Scripture the imperative to love our neighbors and care for the least of these. That is by far one of the clearest messages

I believe that some of the most powerful resistance to Christian nationalism may ultimately come from those who identify as Christians themselves.

Pray for our CEF worker who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the children," she finally says in an agitated voice. "If these accusations are allowed to continue, Lord, it could devastate the man, and his family, and the ministry.

We have heard the single-issue, pro-life or -death refrain so many times that we no longer remember a time when America's houses of worship, including conservative ones, tended to approach a vast range of issues that affect our society with the humility and appreciation of their complexity that is their due.