Quotes About Community

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.