Quotes About Community

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

When we see some of these pieces of legislation that want to eliminate single-family zoning in California, that's wrong.

I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.