Quotes About Community

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

That's why God gave us families - an community. No one is meant to live life alone, to carry their grief alone.

to share what she learned with her friends and family in Indiana.

There are people from your community who love Him in a quiet, reverent way. There are others who are more bold and vocal about their faith. But I have a notion what makes Him feel special isn't just the fact that all those people think He's great. But rather when you or I are praying, and thinking about Him or singing to Him or thanking Him for his mountains and trees, that He takes joy in the intimacy of the moment. It's that personal connection, I bet, that brightens His day.

at the WI Markets,' I said regretfully.

Clint never could get into the split personality thing, acting and talking one way around family and friends, then turning into someone your own mama wouldn't recognize just to have a conversation with some white folks. He'd never seen the advantage to it. Once Clint had learned that all white people didn't smell like the Downy fabric softener he'd seen in those commercials, he lost the enchantment. He felt no urge to try to impress them.

More important though—live for others, just as much as for yourself. If you do that, their strength becomes, in some mysterious way, yours. There is always somebody, somewhere, who needs you. Never, for one minute, ever lose sight of that. If they are not with you, not near you now—go and find them, even if it means voyaging thousands of miles to do it.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

WITH ALL, COOPERATION. FOR ALL, RESPECT. ABOVE ALL, HONOR.

No!" Kinkajou cried. "We're eating together! You haven't even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!

As each of them voted for her, Sunny felt as though her own scales might turn pink.

Act smart, stay alive, stick together but don't be an idiot — those are our basic rules.

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

It doesn't work to throw tribes together and just hope they'll get along, because they won't — they can't. Dragons don't work that way, no matter what tribe they're from.

Legend of the Hive.

they belonged to a small MudWing with a healing mud patch stuck across his nose. His

visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

The greatest tribe in Pyrrhia!

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove

Moon recognized one of them as Sora. The MudWing was doing some kind of breathing ritual where she imagined mud pouring over all her fears, burying them, so all Moon could see was ripples. Another dragonet was reading, but couldn't concentrate on the words; he kept thinking, Everyone will know I don't belong here.

Hardly a NightWing at all

orders (or as Katydid called them, "whole