Quotes About Community

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.