Quotes About Community

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

We believe that every child has a right to learn without fear, that every parent has a right to hug their beautiful little babies when they come home from school, and that all of us, we have a right to dance at a concert, laugh at the theater, pray at a synagogue, at a church, and at a mosque.

I have a wonderful synagogue, fantastic rabbi and cantor and membership, and they just enrich my life every day, and I learned so much from helping to grow our synagogue, grow our membership, and meet the needs of such a diverse population.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with non-U.K. origins.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

I'm hoping that autism is going to get to that same point, where it becomes quite ordinary to say, 'I have autism,' or 'I have Asperger's syndrome,' and that there will be many more resources available to make life easier for people on the autistic spectrum.

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.