Quotes About Community

I represent the streets of Puerto Rico around the world.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.