Quotes About Community

The challenges we face are far too big to be solved by a few chosen people. It's all of our jobs to work for each other now. To believe in our own efficacy to help our communities. Not to solve the problems of the world, but to help the people around us in any and every way we can. That feels right to me.

For, on this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Make lunch, not war.

All the people like us are We. And every one else is They. And They live over the sea. While We live over the way. But — would you believe it? — They look upon We As only a sort of They!...

Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

A family is a small kingdom, a kingdom is a large family...

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

When fire is cried and danger is nigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

Firefighters save hearts and homes.

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.

Firefighting — one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.

Volunteer firefighters do it for free!

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

If you take the 'I' out of illness and add 'we' you end up with wellness.

Even though your broken heart may never heal, bless those who help hold together the pieces.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

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