Quotes About Community

Frankly, I don't see the advantage being gargantuan will get me, not when I have to run errands around people I know." "Yeah, that might be a problem. Scaring the mailman won't win you any favors around town." Caitlyn grinned. -Kelly & Caitlyn

Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it.

When there is no bread and even when there is we should eat our fill of one another.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

Several Nations from the United States and Canada are embodied in this collection. Even so, no individual writer attempts to speak for his or her entire Nation, only from personal experiences dealing with non-Indians as well as Indians. Sadly, for whatever reasons, some of our worst enemies are on occasion our own people. The

LCrows are our buddies.

efforts of the people you're working with, not just from your own solitary work.

f the "Christian right" would acknowledge the existence of a Christian left, the community of believers might be able to deliver a lively witness to the capaciousness of our faith in spirited (and I used that term advisedly) debate.

There are generous and inventive ways to enjoy words and to reclaim them as instruments of love, healing, and peace. All of us who speak, read, write, and listen to each other have opportunities to do that and to foster the kinds of community that come from shared stories and surprising sentences.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

Fear only what you lost from not sharing

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys.