Quotes About Community

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Ayla should have been the son of my mate." Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear.

Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.

To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

People must help one another it is nature's law.

counted themselves among California's established

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

L'Albin, avec sa procession de joueurs d'harmonicas

Una sociedad crece cuando los ancianos plantan árboles bajo cuya sombra saben que nunca se sentarán

It seems to me that today every piece of writing, every word one Frenchman can say to all the other French must be first and foremost a sign of fraternity, and then must mean: 'Be proud, whoever you are, my comrade, my brother. All this happened only because we were not proud enough. Be proud. You are not defeated and you never will be.

She wanted to go on food tours of the Lower East Side, guided history walks in Tribeca, gospel brunches in Harlem, all of those things native (or at least "established") New Yorkers tended to turn up their noses at, preferring to maintain a smug ignorance about their city.

This is how you know you're on Long Island, somebody offers you coffee and Entenmann's.

Everyone hates the mob, but everyone belongs to it

The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.

Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value.

He's part me and part Clan, and so is Ura. Or rather, she's part Oda and part that man who killed her baby.

All in all, iGen'ers are increasingly disconnected from human relationships—

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

happiness heldis the seed happiness shared is the flower, happiness seems to be shared

We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history. What can and will we do?