Quotes About Community

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.