Quotes About Community

Le comari a poco a poco si erano diradate, e come il paese stesso andava addormentandosi, si udiva il mare che russava li vicino, in fondo alla straduccia, e ogni tanto sbuffava, come uno che si volti e rivolti nel letto.

The Malavoglia huddled together, clinging to the rail, hardly daring to breathe because when the sea roars no-one dares answer.

Allorquando uno di quei piccoli , o più debole, o più incauto, o più egoista degli altri, volle staccarsi dal gruppo per vaghezza dell'ignoto o per brama di meglio, o per curiosità di conoscere il mondo, il mondo da pesce vorace com'è, se lo ingoiò, e i suoi più prossimi con lui.

The worst thing,' Mena said, 'is to have to leave your hometown where everyone, even the stones, know who you are. It must be heartbreaking to leave them all behind and head off down the road. The bird that's most blessed has a home for his nest.

Ogni pomeriggio ci trovavamo alle panchine. Era bello avere un posto fisso. Sapere che gli amici sarebbero arrivati era uno dei pochi punti fermi che avevamo.

Also, now that we were just one league among many, we had needed a league name. And so we had become, despite Eleanor's objections, Aunt Nellie's All-Star Resistance League—the Resisters, for short.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

The peacebuilder then is a man or woman who is helping to figure the conditions of possibilities for the "presencing" of the reunion (unity, koinonia, shalom) in and between groups (communities, socialities).

Art must be of the people if it is to be art at all," wrote Starr. "It is only when a man is doing work which he wishes done, and delights in doing, and which he is free to do as he likes, that his work becomes a language to him.

You are a guardian and protector of liberty. You may be the only thing that stands between freedom and slavery. And if you can, join those who are willing to take a stand in Washington, DC on 9-12. If not, stand together somewhere in your community on 9-12. Get involved. They're very well organized in their communities, and I didn't realize how many socialist communities there were.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.

We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide.

Once a week, beginning at sunset on Friday and until sunset on Saturday, the family had to pause. A Jewish merchant had explained the Sabbath to Agios already, back in Egypt. No devout Hebrew could work or travel on that day. If they were near a temple, the family went there. If no temple was available, they prayed where they were. When

I believe in you. I believe that you are the people that will make the difference. I believe that we cannot conquer darkness with darkness. We cannot conquer evil with evil, we must fight darkness with light. We must not tear down, but buildup.

The world isn't against you, Eddie," he continued. "You are against you. You have to realize that no one is meant to carry the load alone. We're all in this together. Once you realize that you can ask for help, your whole world will change.

It is not time to dissolve the bands that connect us to one another, but it is time to dissolve the "political" bands that separate us from one another. . . . Let us start by doing what we've been trained for so long not to do: let us declare the causes that unite us.

It can be argued that doo-wop is a great, unequivocal uniter of white men of a certain age and temperament.

Truth and love do not need walls. Christ did not build walls. He tore them down. And he prayed, not in lofty, beautiful churches but in people's homes

Justice, then, must function at both levels: personal and communal. It must flow in both directions: from one individual to another and from the community as a whole to each individual.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.