Quotes About Community

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

This story is blowing up because of the racism of the white American community. Look to your own families, people, and don't throw stones.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

You belong where you're loved.

The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.

Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to.

Wherever we are, we are as one

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

Who do we belong with but each other?