Quotes About Community

Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

But a man needs company.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.