Quotes About Community

I love to go to Hunter's Pizza on Huntingwood and Birchmount. That's in Scarborough, of course! It's been in the same family for two generations. It's been there since I moved there in '67, so it's been there for 50 years. I can't claim it's the best pizza in the world but I can say it's my favorite pizza place.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

You'd think that being that guy who always has pizza to give away would make you really popular with the neighbors, but I've had people turn down free pizza after I'd offered it to them too many times.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

Football, for me, was a place where I got accepted for being a good footballer.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

Festivals are happy places, and you don't really want to enjoy them on your own.

I never said I could save Braddock. It's not about me. It was never even just about Braddock. It was a metaphor. Places like this matter.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

I enjoy Impact so much because some places, if they see you down, they won't be good enough to come take your hand and help you with what you're going through.

Get off the beaten path... If you want to find those mom-and-pop joints, those funky little places, just ask around.

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.