Quotes About Community

the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city's big ethnic festivals.

Say what you want, but gay guys who've been where you are—there're a loyal breed of animal.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.

Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

The difference, I think, is that in Vietnam, people seem to have no choice about the kind of house they live in. They may want to fix the roof, but they can't do much about it, so they fight each other for a dry spot on the floor away from all the leaks.

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

You are what you share.

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

In this day . . . community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.

Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

We are none of us free. We are tethered by our connections to other people, those we know as well as those we will never meet. What tethers us is our ability our responsibility to imagine them, to fathom their lives, their circumstances, what we have in common, and what sets us apart.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12 We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

leave the world a better place than we found it

In plaats van naar de kerk te gaan (hun denken was niet verduisterd door de gedachte dat de kerk bestond uit gebouwen en organisatorische structuren) kwamen ze bijen als zijnde de kerk om gemeenschap te hebben in Zijn Tegenwoordigheid

ik zie de geestelijke en psychologische problemen van individuen simpelweg als gevolg van een verzuim in de aanbidding door de gemeente, waardoor ze de nodige genezing niet meer kunnen ontvangen

Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

Book writing, like any good work, demonstrates that our myths about individualism are untrue. All work worth doing is necessarily dependent upon the work, goodwill, support, and kindnesses of others.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.