Quotes About Community

Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

The great hope of society is individual character.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

The people are the city.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

We are in the same boat

We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.