Quotes About Community

We are neither anti-urban nor pro-rural. We know there is a gap between urban and rural areas; we are only trying to bridge it.

I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.

In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the U.K.; people are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity.

Urban music in the Spanish-language is a force to be reckoned with, there's truly something for everyone in it.

Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.