Quotes About Community

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog's Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

our town we like to know the facts about everybody.

The life of a village in the life of the stars

Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?

People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

If she has truly been brought so low that she has to second-guess the simple act of sharing a fruit with a woman even more destitute than she, then why not relinquish all claims to human society? She may as well join the pack of stray dogs that lives just outside the slum, who snarl and wrestle each other over a bone.

This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it's not.

They had all worked so hard to forget what they'd left behind and to build a new life in America.

Vesak Day, May 31, 2007

Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them.

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

extreme loneliness is twice as likely to cause death among the elderly as obesity or high blood pressure. Those who had reported being lonely had a 14 percent greater risk of dying.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.