Quotes About Community

The overall experience was pretty cool just because if there was a street, it was lined with people. And for something as brutal as a marathon, you're running for three hours, it's just nice to have all those people cheering you on, putting their hands out for high fives - you never feel alone.

We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

National service can bridge the gap between the social challenges we face and the resources needed to overcome them.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

I grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive together as a family, and less to do with external relationships that we had with the community.

I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

I like having family and friends around me. Our house is always overflowing with guests.

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

I know, for me, that I love wrestling, and I love games, so there was already an overlap there because all of my friends growing up were the same.

Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician, so I've grown up around so many brilliant musicians that nobody outside Los Angeles knows about.

Nothing was ever easy in Memphis and I think that's why the fans were drawn to our team so much. It's because the way we played and the way we got overlooked and the respect that we didn't get most of the time was very similar to how the city felt and how the locals felt about life in general. It was an easy bond.

We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.

I'm a firm believer that individual accolades are a bit overrated in this game.

Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It's infuriating.

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.