Quotes About Community

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.