Quotes About Community

C'mon on down to the Whiff and Spit; snuff it up and cough it out," Lewis chanted, giving it a catchy rhythem.

I'm sorry you grew up around ugly people" - Diana

There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows

No one is ever alone.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves.

Chaque moderne porte en soi une petite Église infaillible dont il est le Christ et le Pontife et la grosse affaire est d'attirer le plus grand nombre possible de paroissiens.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country, and a homeland are one and the same: nu'ó'c.

Katherine, for her part, understood that New York could be the loneliest place in the world and she told people she wanted to be "fun to be around.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

All things are in common among friends.

If you see your neighbor's beard on fire, water your own. --Martinique proverb

Now see," she says: "each stands only by help of the other. One by itself cannot stand. Therefore the ji is like mankind. Without help one person cannot live in this world; but by getting help and giving help everybody can live. If nobody helped anybody, all people would fall down and die.

Before Night Comes. Some people think of it as a modern classic. He also wrote We Ourselves, about Northern Ireland.

My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.

We are real people with real feelings and we're not evil or mean. Take Ron for instance, he is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet and if you talked to him you'd see that instantly. I mean the guy is just super smart and super sweet and nice but nobody wants to talk about how goddamn normal we all are. We raise our kids and love our families and get our mail and wash our cars and do everything else that you or your wife do. It's really not as far out as people think.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

Me & Mik. I've never been part of an ampersand before.

Lazlo couldn't have belonged at the library more truly if he were a book himself.