Quotes About Community

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

You are part of our Great British family.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

Family is so important. Friends are so important. You need that connection.

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.