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Quotes About Community

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.
~ Charles A. Lindbergh
Service isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.
~ Author unknown, c. 1990s
Right on, brother hippies, the [??n!$] is mightier than the sword!
~ The Progressive, 1971
The world moves along, not merely by the gigantic shoves of its hero-workers, but by the aggregate tiny pushes of every honest worker whatever.
~ J.R. Green, 1870
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
~ Author Unknown
Three glasses of wine can set everything to rights.
~ Chinese proverb
We are slaves to words. Speak often enough of an unreal thing, and after a while it becomes real. For instance, we have used the word "nation" for centuries. There is, however, no such thing as a nation. All that really exists is the individuals that compose a nation.
~ Frank Crane, 1920
A thousand men can't undress a naked man.
~ Greek proverb
You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.
~ Martin Rutte
Neighborhood is family.
~ Haitian proverb
The medicine man never cures his own illness.
~ Haitian proverb
This was their code: They were free to do whatever they wanted with what they got on their own, but they had a general understanding that they shared with one another, and even in a state of inebriation, they rarely forgot it.
~ Ishmael Beah
Should people take justice in their own hands when their system of law does not function?
~ Ishmael Beah
If anyone had told them that they would look back at this day while having conversations that mended the repetitive brokenness in so many lives, they wouldn't have believe it.
~ Ishmael Beah
A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
~ Ismail Kadare
Hooting and hollering, the crowd reliably responded as if that were the height of humor, while Herman slapped me on the back and nearly fell off his gunnysack seat guffawing and I laughed as hard as if I hadn't heard that mossy joke at every rodeo I had ever been to. Life can tickle you in the ribs surprisingly when it's not digging its thumb in.
~ Ivan Doig
Tako se na kapiji, izme?u neba, reke i brda, naraštaj za naraštajem u?io da ne žali preko mere ono što mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je život neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrsto kao na Drini ?uprija.
~ Ivo Andri?
Teško je ploviti bez krivudanja sa tolikim svetom na brodu i za spas svih treba ponekad nešto od tereta i u more baciti.
~ Ivo Andri?
Volite ljude, ?esto im pomozite i uvijek ih požalite, jer su nam svi ljudi potrebni.
~ Ivo Andri?
Njegova kapija je srce mosta koji je srce ove kasabe koja svakom mora da ostane u srcu.
~ Ivo Andri?
I ta nema i nevidljiva gomila, koja raste oko njega kao gusta ustalasana trava, govori mu samim svojim prisustvom isto što i ženin šapat: da bol prolazi; da uvek biva bolje, da mora biti bolje.
~ Ivo Andri?
Finally, I was let down and joined the others at the window, to watch the sleet fall.
~ Ivor Cutler
The impact of a lack of self-acceptance is intensified in the relationships between and among women.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security." The
~ Iyanla Vanzant