Quotes About Community

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

I feel both isolated from poverty – I do not know what my neighbors need or if they need anything – and surrounded by it because now we know all about the hunger and death in the world, and everyone is my neighbor.

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Wir lachen gemeinsam, weil wir lange genug allein geweint haben.

Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.

He met Austin's gaze over the top of Faith's head. "I sure hope your baby is a boy." "Reckon we need to even things out a little, don't we?" Rawley gave him a brusque nod. "We men folk are sorely outnumbered." Austin laughed, remembering a time when that was exactly what Dallas had wanted: more women out in West Texas. -Austin and Rawley

I've always believed that dreams were meant to be shared. Where's the joy in reaching for something if you have no one to see you capture it?

of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.

What women these Christians have." ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

Having hearing children meant they had to come into contact with hearing people even more frequently than they would have otherwise—hearing teachers and scout leaders wouldn't have been such a part of their lives.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Don't tell people about your problems...90% of them don't care, and the other 10% are glad you got them?

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.

If social media is used as a way for people to celebrate others and share life together around the world and talk about Jesus and the gospel, then social media is great. But if social media is where you are getting your approval and if it's your drug, then social media is going to kill you. Tweet that.

In reality 'we' have never been alone. Communists are never alone.

God is the immanent spirit of the community" (Royce).

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.