Quotes About Community

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

A great city, a great solitude.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.

Farmers worry only during the growing season, but town people worry all the time.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now.

All for one; one for all.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you.

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

There was all the world and his wife.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.