Quotes About Community

The girl, Gary's girl....would keep bowls of Hershey's Kisses on the coffee table, and she'd decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she'd be class mother, and PTA president, and she'd deliver meals to the elderly once a month. In bed, she'd be exuberant, and would take it as an endorsement when Gary sweated all over her.

a concentration of young people who wanted to open their minds

This is a door. You can close it and stay here, outside, by yourself, or you can walk through it and join them

Make sure you have people who love you, the real you, not the Instagram you. If you can't be brave, pretend to be brave, and if you can't do that yet, know that you aren't alone. Everyone you see is struggling. Nobody has it all figured out.

husband, Dave, my daughter, and I had moved out of Cen- ter City and into a house in Haverford that I refused to call a McMansion, even though that's exactly what it was, but I loved Ellie's pediatrician so much that 1'd never even tried to find a suburban replacement.

When women lift each other up, when we reach out our hands to each other, when we honor the ones who came before us and hold the door open for the ones who will follow, there is nothing we can't do.

Your own property is in peril when your neighbor's house burns.

The moment a Frenchman opens his mouth, he declares his identity. The French speak French. The English speak a language which belongs to no one.

democratizing energy.

How can I truly serve others if I'm also serving myself, or my ego?

The one unbeliever is sanctified by his holy and believing family. For, when a man is surrounded by a believing crowd of children and grandchildren, he is as good as a candidate for the faith.

Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.

we abolished marriage two hundred years ago. You see, married life did not work at all well with our system. Domestic life, we found, was thoroughly anti-socialistic in its tendencies. Men thought more of their wives and families than they did of the State. They wished to labour for the benefit of their little circle of beloved ones rather than for the good of the community.

My fellow-passengers generally let on that they were going to see sick relatives

If I succeed, if I am strong enough to figth the world for myself and win, that will mean I am strong enough and clever to help others

For its own sake, a civilized community could no more disregard equity than it dare tolerate an imperfect drainage system.

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

to a church where people don't mind expressing themselves.

And they prayed for him.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.

The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for.

advance to the forms that other humans provide.