Quotes About Community

Maeve Binchy

All those people you pass as you climb the ladder of success could be the same ones who will catch you if you fall.

appeared, before either she or Amy had come to live in Huskisson Street. 'Was you thinkin' of gettin' dressed and runnin' out on your pal?' 'No, indeed,' Minnie said with dignity. 'I thought it

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

There is no shame in struggling, there is no shame in finding things hard and there is absolutely no shame in getting the support you need, whenever you need it. Because nobody is perfect, and nobody is always getting it right – we are all just winging it as best we can.

It could have been quite worse," he agreed magnanimously. "And those two guys who felt up your butt while the maintenance dude was working on that hinge were kicked out because they violated the 'must have fondler's consent' rule, or so that pink-haired woman who spoke English said, so at least they won't do that to the next guy trapped in the stocks." "I will sleep easier knowing that.

No game is an island.

In this overcrowded, underwhelming world, any gesture, no matter how slight, expressing that one person recognizes another person is a nice thing indeed.

Home was this whole perfectly contained universe--town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day...And we were about to leave it all.

Good morning, my dears! (heart) And welcome back!

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and people who were generous, and people who comforted one another.

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society.

In the one place everyone looks like me--has my name--i am the most foreign.

Katsuya J?nouchi [to Esper Roba]: I have friends in this town...and you have your brothers! As long as you're not alone...you're always strong!

Positive reinforcement to counter negative experience, because ultimately, nobody wants to face the bad things alone.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Why go to all the trouble of meeting new people if you're not going to work on making them a part of your life?

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

You've got to create a community of colleagues and friends before you need it. Others around you are far more likely to

Business cycles ebb and flow; your friends and trusted associates remain.