Quotes About Community

If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species.

Rather large crowd, I whispered to my employer. I thought he had no family. The fact that he had no family is why the crowd is so large, Barker explained patiently. It means that the entire community becomes his family. Also, the Jews have great respect for the teachers of their children.

I still believe in good and bad, in black and white, in right and wrong. I believe the guilty should be punished. I believe the law enforcement community has an obligation to make the world a better place, a safer placce. And I believe that with dedication and hard work, everyone can make a difference. Even lawyers. - Jack Bullock

social networking is the new dinner conversation . 

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Such, such were the joys When we all -- girls and boys -- In our youth-time were seen On the echoing Green.

The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.

he needed the security of other bodies.

Clean is he alone after whom stream the broken pieces of the city— flying apart at his approaches

Up to then, neither Mother nor Pop had any immediate church connections, but used to meet with a few others at spiritualistic seances, sometimes at home, sometimes elsewhere around the block. A prime mover in this form of religious service was old man Demarest, a devout believer. The chief tenet of these earnest persons was that the dead did live as spirits about us and would come or could be called to us at certain times by prayer or otherwise. There were curious consequences.

For all its faults we love this city.' Then, after a pause, she added: 'After all, we built it.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment have earned universal recognition.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

So the next day we all said, She will kill herself; and we said it would be the best thing.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

people seemed to hold that the one sole end of the entire establishment of public office was to elect one man like Sheriff Hampton big enough or at least with sense and character enough to run the county and then fill the rest of the jobs with cousins and inlaws who had failed to make a living at everything else they ever tried.

Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.

IT WAS JUST NOON that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.