Quotes About Community

En realidad le importaba poco integrarse: el concepto de grupo le parecía más bien de "rebaño". Miraba a sus compañeros de facultad o de residencia y sentía que eran todos iguales. Bueno, quizá por grupos, pero iguales. De un solo vistazo podías saber si leían o no y qué, qué música escuchaban y hasta el tipo de chico o chica con que les gustaría salir. A Laura aquello le parecía aburrido. ¿Qué interés podría tener la gente en parecerse?

Friends are where you find them, and sometimes you find them when you least suspect, in the oddest places at the strangest times.

Was it her imagination, or did everyone in town have roots that went back to the beginning of time, complete with ancestral home and pedigree? Was one of those pedigrees hers? Were some of her roots here in this bayside town? Jamie

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Service is what life is all about.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

no somos átomos aislados en este mundo, y nuestra conducta influye necesariamente en las vidas de muchas otras personas, a las que estamos ligados por lazos de sangre o de amistad.

Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

Julen i Hamsund hadde han fortalt meg om. Der var ikke noe juletre, men det var lys i en stake. Og alle fikk spise seg mette i Guds navn.