Quotes About Community

We never know, do we, what our neighbors might be doing behind their fences, what love affairs and bloody rituals might be taking place right next door? The world is a more interesting place that we ever think.

Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all over America because this was the place to find dreams and pleasure and love. I noticed--looking at headlines--that some cities emptied and some didn't. Ours didn't, not completely.

work could become a place where people were uplifted.

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives us a sense of community), but I feel better because look how much these fellow fuckups managed to accomplish!

Maybe no man is an island, but some sure look like one.

I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about kindness.

Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.

Rug muncher!

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in the doorways, and she was afraid.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.

When it came to choosing between education and religion, Albert said, he'd choose education every time. The school represented young people and the future - and the church didn't. If the school in Vestergade was bigger than the church, so much the better. Any town that believed in the future should take note.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it." ? We, the Drowned

when it came to Missing Persons, Niceville had a stranger abduction rate five times higher than the national average.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.