Quotes About Community

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

As the family goes, so goes society.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.