Quotes About Community

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

What is really important for us in Sydney is to make sure every community is treated the same.

We came together in such an organic way. We felt we had something special even when we were starting in the outskirts of Western Sydney.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.

Food banks have become such a powerful symbol in part because they're inescapable.

When the BSP comes to power, modern hospitals and community centers will be constructed especially in the name of Parshuram - considered the symbol and pride of the Brahmin community- as well as an icon of other religions and castes.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

A lot of times we have these categories that maybe don't fit the reality of human experience and human identity. I'm completely sympathetic to what a lot of people in my community are saying - that often as Asian Americans we're made to feel more foreign than we internally feel ourselves.

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.