Quotes About Community

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Nineteenth-century children made work fun by having friends join in. In this "wool-picking bee," the kids got wool ready for spinning by picking out the sticks and burrs. "Talk and laugh," said Darlene, "but do a good job. You wouldn't want any twigs in there if your mom was knitting your woolen underwear!

He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy." "Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You've never seen so many of the faithful who're armed.

He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

Te llamas a ti misma ciudadana del mundo, sus ojos susurraban, pero eso sólo significa que no perteneces a ningún sitio.

Doesn't it bother you, being out in that cottage all alone? Especially with Theo Harp as your only neighbor." "I'm pretty fearless," Annie replied. The puppets in her head fell all over themselves laughing.

any good deed, no matter how small, could keep multiplying until it had changed the whole world forever for the better.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I know that nobody who has grown up in a Jewish environment can ever be not-a-Jew, whether the Jewishness he experienced was defined by his family's sense of history, by its religious observances, or, indeed, by the environment's attitudes toward Jews.

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?

And in my head I laid out the stories the islanders told me... the flakes of silver, the seals who are wiser than humans, the girl who floated like a patchwork star.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)

I might 'a' known she needed help! I tell you, it's queer, Mrs. Peters. We live close together, and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing! If it weren't—why do you and I understand? Why do we know—what we know this minute?