Quotes About Community

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be.

If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

In my early campaigns, people would sometimes come up to me at a grocery store or at a shopping mall and say, 'I know you from somewhere.'

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.

I like to support local record stores.

I miss independent record stores very much.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.