Quotes About Community

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Born to be a husband and a father, he found himself, through no fault of his own, when near on seventy, a childless widower; well liked by many, but needed by none.

though they are on the whole less violent, personal relations in modern urban communities also lack the intimacy and continuity of those in most traditional societies. Increasingly, they are casual, anonymous, and fleeting.

The efficiency of information exchanges reflects, above all, the nature and regularity of contacts and exchanges between different communities.

most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.

Addicts know the voices in their heads can't be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that's what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.

Toleg. I like big Toleg," said Mooq. "He's kind and strong as Pollooq and gives me seal blubber. Let it be Toleg Breakback.

So quiet that house was in the night, so quiet all the other little homes around it were that held the elderly in them and the old alone or still in couples sleeping early, waking, lying awake and thinking about the past. So much past every night in the silence settling over those houses that all looked much the same on a hillside creeping up against the rock and gorse and tipping down to the river where it widened, widened and ended in the sea.

But Vegas is really my first home.

I've been to council estates where there are demonstrations against paedophiles. You stand there, making sure things don't get too out of hand, thinking, 'You're the same parents who sentence your kids to a life of crap jobs, no personal stability, no family life, no support in their learning, no boundaries and no rules.

Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four hundred junks dominated the coastal waters and attacked any merchant vessels which strayed into the area. From 1807 these pirates were led by a remarkable woman called Mrs. Cheng, a former prostitute from Canton.

The reality is that accent distinctiveness is nothing to do with physical environment, but a result of the combination of regional and social factors that have influenced the emergence of a particular community.

There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

I want them to think of being in church as being in the middle of a work of art, a collective witness of fellow human beings, wherever they are and whatever they're up to.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.

As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.

A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles.

Dublin is a big village and a dirty village where gossip reigns supreme'.

the gregarious intimacy, rare in a town of this size, the vivacious gossip, the cultural fizz, the wit and repartee at every social level . . .

No city exists in the present tense,' wrote James Stephens, Dublin journalist and poet in 1923, 'it is the only surviving mass-statement of our ancestors, and it changes inversely to its inhabitants. It is old when they are young, and when they grow old it has become amazingly and shiningly young again.

And it was telling that it took forty-three years to rebuild the single bridge across the Liffey after it collapsed in 1385, and that it was the abbot of St Mary's Abbey, not the justiciar or the merchants, who eventually oversaw the construction of what was the first fully stone bridge.

Whatever the muddy reality, the image of Dublin as an undefiled community of Norman/English families who had settled in the twelfth century, married amongst their own and upheld English law, customs and orthodox religion, was a compelling story.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

A fire department isn't a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.