Quotes About Community

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to lift themselves up to create a better life for their families and doing everything possible to bring his people together.

As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own family here.

Missouri agriculture has a bright future, and you can see that in action through our FFA members.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they've done for me.

I have a great relationship with the whole Missouri athletic department. I made friends with everyone from the administrators to the janitors and everyone in between.

Missouri nonprofits have been a lifeline for many Missourians throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

I'm running for Congress to represent Missouri's 1st because we need leadership that is truly invested in helping us become stronger and safer. I'm running because I have a commitment to every member of my community.

As we work to do the most for everyone in Missouri's First District beginning with those who have the least, we have to make our constituent services program as accessible as possible.

The people of Missouri's First District elected a Ferguson-made activist to the House and I have brought the same energy from the frontlines of Ferguson to the halls of Congress.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

I don't like Mitt Romney. I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.