Quotes About Community

The best thing is that everything that you make in Scratch can be stored directly on your computer or you can upload it on the Scratch website if you want to get feedback from other users.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

We are all on this journey of life together, each given certain gifts to make this world a better place and to help make one another's burdens a little lighter along the way.

Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one. . . . It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

The neighborhood-towns were part of larger ethnic states. To the north of the Loop was Germany. To the northwest was Poland. To the west were Italy and Israel. To the southwest were Bohemia and Lithuania. And to the south was ireland... you could always tell, even with your eyes closed, which state you were in by the odors of the food stores and the open kitchen windows, the sound of the foreign or familiar language, and by whether a stranger hit you in the head with a rock.

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

So, for a variety of reasons, ranging from convenience to fear to economics, people stayed in their own neighborhood, loving it, enjoying the closeness, the friendliness, the familiarity, and trying to save enough money to move out.

Fats Boylermaker, 22, who once leaned against a corner light pole from 2 A.M. Sunday until noon Sunday, when the tavern opened again.

Challenge in hand, and all stuck together, State Fire Marshal William Cowhey observed: "There's enough brains and good will in this room to overcome this problem that has hit Chicagoland." (Results have indicated that it wasn't a very big room.)

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

The citizens of Joplin were unwittingly being trained not to act when the sirens sounded.

Meanwhile, the residents of the 138,000 damaged buildings continued to swelter and suffer. Local Miamians, as well as citizens from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, attempted to drive bottled water, food, clothes, and other supplies into the stricken area. They were successful during the first few hours; but they were shut down by the end of the first day. The same bureaucrats who were giving mixed signals to Washington seemed to prefer organized suffering to disorganized relief.

What says more about who you are in Christ? How loudly you say AMEN in the service or how well you treat strangers in the foyer?

Regular church attenders tend to come to our places of worship to feel better, not to be hit with the unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, the threatening.

Remember that the poor are people with names," writes Bryant Myers, author of Walking with the Poor. "[They are] people with whom and among whom God has been working before we even knew they were there.

Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

The Bible says that we must reach out to those in need," James replied. "Jesus loves us, so we get to love you. It's a privilege.

Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people. While carnival lasts, there is no other life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.