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Quotes About Community

I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
~ Cesar Pelli
When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.
~ Richard Cabral
Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
~ Estelle
I know the first time I see a 'Goddess Mode' cosplayer I'm going to cry in such a loud, obnoxious way that it'll be audible from space.
~ Zoe Quinn
I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
~ Barry McGuigan
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
~ Elliott Abrams
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
~ Concha Buika
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
~ Kate Christensen
I was only 18 when I made 'A Taste Of Honey' in the city of Salford, where writer, Shelagh Delaney set it. She was about 19 when she wrote the play based on her experiences of life and what she observed in her community.
~ Rita Tushingham
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
~ Frankie Shaw
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
~ Curtis Mayfield
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.
~ Kolo Toure
I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
~ Dennis Crowley
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
~ Gretchen Rubin
In hard times, North Carolinians have shown that we bounce back. But that's not by chance. It's because we are determined. Determined to tough it out. To help each other, and leave no one behind. Determined to turn our obstacles into opportunities.
~ Roy Cooper
Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
~ Anatoly Karpov
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
~ Janet Echelman
I don't expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, 'I love 'Drag Race,' and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.' Not necessarily an obvious crossover.
~ Trixie Mattel
There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.
~ Andrew Strauss
The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out in the open that if you can't see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.
~ Jamal Murray
Even for myself, Ive been lucky enough to walk around Glasgow with my family and you see all the different nationalities and different establishments - whether thats restaurants, businesses - and its obvious that people have come from all over the world to make this city a great city.
~ Angelos Postecoglou