Quotes About Community

New Orleans is kind of like a second home for me.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

I come from an orthodox Muslim family.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

We all need each other.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.

I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.

Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can't go there.

When you see the fans all in together - elation and sadness sat next to each other, kids crying and the other half of the family up there, giving it all that - that's just incredible.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.