Quotes About Community

Leaf-blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

My neighbor asked me if he could borrow my lawnmower. I told him he could — as long as he didn't take it out of my yard.

Hugs grease the wheels of the world.

Hug Department: Always Open

Mercanti della carità, andate ad imparare dai poveri, perché solo i poveri sono caritatevoli. Loro non danno né negano dal loro sovrappiù, perché di sovrappiù non ne hanno. Loro danno, non negano mai [...]. Dare un osso al cane non è carità. Carità è spartire l'osso col cane avendo fame quanto lui.

this in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone

THE SEVENTH HIGHER LAW IS: When You Raise the Bottom, the Top Rises.

when people are feeling good about themselves, they begin to feel good about others as well.

As soon as the police slip out from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves. They think no more of justice, but only of establishing themselves as a privileged and envied elite. They mistake the attitude of natural caution and uncertainty of the civilian populace as admiration and respect, and presently start to swagger back and forth, jingling their weapons in megalomaniacal euphoria.

Le persone che vivevano in massa, pensò Shorn, erano come ciottoli su di una spiaggia: ciascuna levigava il suo vicino, fino a quando tutte erano assolutamente uniformi.

for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

To clearly identify which refugees were Jewish refugees and to prevent their entering new Christian communities, the church ordered that Jews had to wear distinctive clothes and emblems to mark them for all to see.

For the Mongols, the law was more a way of handling problems, creating unity, and preserving peace rather than just a tool for deciding guilt or administering punishment.

La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.

We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.

Jacqueline Wilson

And that's what we are all looking for, isn't it? A home. We're looking for where we belong.

he believed that it is a weak country that does not take care of its own

Every boy had grown to manhood with a family of mother, father and village. A man and woman might have lost their son but they had also lost his best friend and the boys who had played football together in the street after school and cricket on the green in summer. "Who have we lost?" the words echoed in her ears.

And she will be with children who come from a real mix of places and who have moved around a bit. They're used to it. They're all . . . well, I guess they're habituated to being different. Which means they're accustomed to finding out all the things that make them the same as one another, and yet they take their individuality in their stride.

Grannies to the rescue.

The act of writing a novel is generally thought to be a solitary journey from that first awe-inspiring blank page to the end. However, the fact that most authors offer acknowledgments speaks to the presence of a team in the background, offering advice, support, information, a shoulder to cry on, or someone to share a laugh with.

La grandeur du peuple juif, c'est justement d'apporter aux autres, même si les autres ne veulent pas entendre - c'est tikkun olam même pour ceux qui ne veulent pas entendre. [youtube, watch?v=jlVMft1jtiE]

La forma di egoismo più intelligente è l'altruismo.