Quotes About Community

It would be really easy to get discouraged over gun safety, and I have to explain all the time why I am not giving up and why people should not give up.

It's not good enough to announce 'I know my rights' if you aren't prepared to accept that you have responsibilities to society and your fellow citizens as well. And if people don't live up to those responsibilities to our society, they will not be able to hide behind their rights.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I am not interested in individual glory.

There were a lot of people in Manchester that I was connected to, so it is a bit different coming to London and not knowing as many people.

As a society, we're not perfect by any means.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

My social life's moved up a few notches since moving back to London from Surrey because I'm near friends and family again and I'm really enjoying it.

Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students - I've never done that before. I've always had to fend for myself.

I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world.

On Pinwheel, you can find and leave notes all around the world. The notes can be public or private, shared with an individual, a group, or everyone.

My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes. I was playing by ear, following along, but it was such an encouraging environment, I couldn't fail. It was all, 'Yeah baby, you sound real good' no matter what you play. It was a great way to learn.

Ain't nothin' changed with me. I'm Eastside Gary til I die.

Giving back to your community - we've done that forever, that's nothing new.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

I think when you go to Hawaii, you'll notice the ambience, and you'll notice everyone is friendly because we all kind of think for each other.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.

A lot of people have a lot of things going on in their life. You'll be walking past ten people in the middle of the day and not even notice, but someone might have a family member that died, or someone might be going through a hard time. Sometimes you're the only person that someone might see that lifts them up.

Of all the bad things Internet has done for us, one of the good things is exposing us to people that were our neighbors, and now we're at happy to ask questions about things that we were otherwise willing to just walk by and not notice.