Quotes About Community

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed

The safety of the people shall be the highest law

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I like young people. I think it is time my country does what the Indians of Kingcome are doing. We must return to our own roots, our own safety and integrity, and I think this is the beginning to occur. Our lives depend upon it.

The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full of large busy middle-era middle England middle-aged people talking loudly and cheerfully and eating highly coloured meals, most of them from the hot red end of the spectrum.

Here in the Black Country they call good food 'bostin' fittle'. Fittle means vittles. Good vittles, bostin' fittle. They have their own language here. It hasn't been knocked out of them yet.

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

We are hungry, and we don't know for what. We want something, but we can't name it. The parish is taking good care of us, nourishing us with word and sacrament, just as the hospital made sure that Mrs. G was fed, nursed, and medicated. But we want something else, something more: we want to be touched, we want to be known as children of God.

the words from Aelred: "Here we are, you and I, and I hope a third, Christ, is in our midst.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They selflessly strive for the well-being of all those around them. —Mewari proverb, India

We could have been anything we wanted, yet our free-floating individualism has taken us far from community, contribution or connection, the very things that truly give life meaning and purpose.

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

Since Husk's downfall, Brother Fir had quietly and sensibly taken control of the situation. He had told the islanders of the long ago time when a squirrel king had committed murder and sacrifice in that chamber. He had opened it, blessed it, filled it with candlelight, watched, prayed, and sung in it, night and day, cleansing it of its past. It was now the Chamber of Candles, a place of prayer and peace.

Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.