Quotes About Community

For the sharing of bread is not such a simple thing nor is its acknowledgement. Whatever thanks be given, however spoke or written down.

He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.

an old man at the farthest end of the table prayed for them all. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.

No, said the blind man. I do not mean in this house. I mean here. Among us.

They was some of em wound up just livin in the woods like animals. And that was a cold winter, too. People would see em crossin the road at night in the carlights. Whole families. Carryin blankets. Pots and pans. People tried to find em. Take em some flour and meal. Coffee. Maybe a little sidemeat. I think about those children. I do yet.

Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.

See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed & the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history & will have it.

I suppose the suspicion is that our common past can only warrant a common future if we are willing to rid ourselves of the outliers.

You're not the only one that's right. The ragman looked up warily. We're all right, said Suttree. We're all fucked, said the ragman.

De todos modos el compartir es la ley del camino, verdad?

having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—only personal accomplishment is applauded.

Justice is what Love looks like in public.

Our last and only hope is prophetic fightback—a moral and spiritual awakening that puts a premium on courageous truth telling and exemplary action by individuals and communities.

Everyone living around this lake thinks I'm crazy, and if we go back to the police with this story, then the news that Elinor Loredan has finally flipped will be all over the place. Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

A thousand enemies outside the house/ are better than one within (Arab Proverb)

Some of the other mudlarks also swore that Ofelia Fuente's mother was a Witch, but they said that about almost every woman, especially the ones who managed to make a living for themselves.

Nonsense!" she shouted. "Where are you going to go? We all belong together. Your problems are our problems.

Vielleicht gehören wir alle nicht nur in eine Geschichte.

Their prince had weightier matters on his mind just now than the troubles of a farmer whose neighbour had stolen his pig, a cobbler who had bought poor quality leather from a dealer, or a seamstress whose husband beat her every night when he came home drunk.

Ingen visste bättre vad som försiggick än de, som ingenstans hörde hemma

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.