Quotes About Community

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Never refuse homemade brownies.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk [What Libraries Can (Still) Do, The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

Survival of all or none. One raindrop raises the sea. Weapons are enemies even to their owners. Give more, take less. Others first, self last. Observe, listen, and learn. Do one thing at a time. Sing every day. Exercise imagination. Eat to live, don't live to eat.

I can't imagine,' I said one afternoon after a long silence, 'how it would be possible for such a small island to support enough artists and stonecutters to build all these wonders. And I can't imagine how all these different people get along without quarreling.' 'Oh, it is possible,' said Nallab, sucking thoughtfully on a mango, 'but only if you DO imagine it...

They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them.

To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are."6 To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation.

You don't find cows with names any more and there aren't any farmers like Mr. Dakin, who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves, pigs and hens.

The clever economists who tell us that we don't need British agriculture and that our farms should be turned into national parks seem to ignore the rather obvious snag that an unfriendly country could starve us into submission in a week. But to me a greater tragedy still would be the loss of a whole community of people like

When a lonely, penniless old woman dies people don't rush up to you in the street to tell you.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

For any one of us, child or adult, the question eclipsing all others is: How does what comes with you to the world find a place in the world? How does my meaning fit with the meanings to which I am asked to conform? What helps growing down?

too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim

One of them was my father. He did not train aristocrats to govern the Empire or plutocrats to run their fathers' businesses, but he employed his wise and sweetening influence just as valuably among the thousands of elementary schoolboys who knew and know him still in a London suburb.

The worst thing that could possibly happen. Is recognizing we are all connected to each other by a power more greater than us.

The whole country is, and it's sad. Because, before long if the law is not going to do anything about it, people will start taking the law into their own hand. Then there will be a lot of people getting hurt, and then the ones that want to defund the police will be begging for the law to help them.

I'm not alone as so many people have delt with so, so much. Pandemic, loss of a loved one, lost job's, some families that gave up on each other... Now everyone knows the list can go on and on... So just be kind, careful, mindful of the words that come out that mouth. God bless everyone

I'm not alone, so many people have delt with so, so much. Pandemic, loss of a loved one, lost job's, some families that gave up on each other... Now everyone knows the list can go on and on... So just be kind, careful, mindful of the words that come out that mouth. God bless everyone

I know this home is far from perfect. "…everyone needs a somewhere, a place they can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have somewhere you can go!" HOME

We need to support one another by being honest about the compromises we make and by speaking openly about who we are.

Each smallest act of kindness, is passed on and grows each time it's passed. Have courage, and be kind.

I know this place is far from perfect. "…everyone needs a somewhere, a place they can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have somewhere you can go!" HOME

I't is you that is strong. But even strong people need a arm to lean on every now and then.

We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another.