Quotes About Community

In Stockton, Illinois

I wonder where in the world it would be possible to have the ideal, a middle way, a balance between individuality and responsibility to the larger community. Easily named, of course, but I cannot begin to imagine where to achieve it.

This book is about whether schools and communities choose to squelch or nurture the flame of intelligence in their young people, and what happens when they choose to deny or embrace this national resource.

We do not believe that most educators or schools or communities are hostile to the needs of gifted learners. Rather, most people are simply indifferent.

We also know that children learn best when surrounded by their intellectual peers.

San Francisco had been to go to the farmers market in the plaza by the Ferry Building.

A former marine, Paula Stark has been a firefighter for twenty-five years, and Summer Beach had been fortunate to get her. Although the local fire department served the community, they were also brought into the larger firefighting efforts in the region when needed.

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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. — MOTHER TERESA

village of stores, homes, and other buildings where

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.

In this effort toward a higher morality in our social relations, we must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection with the activity of the many.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Every savage can dance.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

One can never have too large a party.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

But, said I, to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking