Quotes About Community

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again.

The mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.

the family is a group that needs to escape from itself...

Love in the Phalanstery is no longer, as it is with us, a recreation which detracts from work; on the contrary it is the soul and the vehicle, the mainspring, of all works and of the whole of universal attraction.

She personified a principled regard for the community, which to me reflects Adam Smith's vision: And hence it is, that to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.3

This was Good Profit 101: providing the best hassle-free service to our clients at the lowest cost to them and attracting the best employees based on the opportunities we offered. Our goal was—and still is—to be the counterparty of choice to our customers, vendors, communities, and employees.

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

even though your broken heart may never heal bless those who help hold the pieces together

A hand that's dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor.

A school library is the brightest beacon of youthful hope. A public library is the brightest beacon of community hope. A local library is the brightest beacon of global hope.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.

A library card is a credit card.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

Our democracy needs a robust press to hold our leaders accountable and cover the important issues facing our communities. The First Amendment belongs to all of us.

Dear taco trucks: Please consider cruising the neighborhoods like ice cream trucks.

Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces.

Love is the thread that binds us.

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

Give an American a newspaper and a pie and he will make himself comfortable anywhere.