Quotes About Community

I always feel at home in theatres like this ... because we're about the same age

850 square feet. It's what forced the Bowmans and everyone else on the Avenues outside. And it was these outdoor spaces—not the closed-in world of flats and row houses of Verdun—that defined them.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Trunk-or-treating, for those who don't know, is just like trick-or-treating, except with cars instead of houses, lame decorations instead of awesome ones, and no fun instead of fun.)

there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia.

Comrades and friends,' he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this particular nation and region, he comes across speaking English with a gravely Central Belt Scottish accent, which I know for a fact has been swiped from old tapes of the Communist trade union leader and authentic working class hero Mick MacGahey.

As the physicist John Wheeler said, "If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

Cultural identities are always evolving, but education is one of the ways in which communities try to control the rate of change. This is why there's always such heat generated around the content of education.

As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative. There

All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Conectar con personas que comparten las mismas pasiones que tú te desmuestra que no estás solo, que hay otros como tú y que, aunque tal vez haya muchos que no entiendan tu pasión, hay otros que sí.

Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

Many people don't find their Element because they don't have the encouragement or the confidence to step outside their established circle of relationships

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

One of the best ways to avoid straying from the Lord is to surround yourself with wise and spiritually mature people who will encourage you to stay on a biblical course, even when the going is tough.

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

In other words, the biblical writers were speaking to those who shared a rich cultural context, which shaped the way they communicated. I grew up in Detroit and share a rich cultural context with other Detroiters. When I say words like lions, tigers, and wings, I don't have to specify that I mean the professional football, baseball, and hockey teams. Fellow Detroiters get it because we share a rich cultural context.

RELIGION IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MESSY BUSINESS OF HUMANITY.

The question of belonging is THE question addressed by the gospel.

There is something more powerful that the gospel calls us to give each other: not affirmation, not moral approval, but acceptance. Another word for acceptance is embrace. The opposite of exclusion is not mere tolerance but embrace. The "other" is received as one who is beloved.

Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not 'of cult, law and ritual', but of 'feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich'.