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Quotes About Community

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
~ The Talmud
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
~ Malcolm Arnold
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~ John Evelyn
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
~ Kenneth Branagh
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
~ Ernst Mayr
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
~ Major Taylor
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
~ Kenny Marchant
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
~ Jasmine Guy
All lasting business is built on friendship.
~ Unknown
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~ Unknown
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
~ Ernie Banks
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
~ Thomas Fuller
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend
~ Unknown
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything
~ Unknown
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone
~ Maya Angelou
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
~ Unknown
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other
~ Carl Schurz
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!
~ Emily Dickinson
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Friendship is a sheltering tree
~ Samuel Coleridge