Quotes About Community

Whole worlds open up when we start a conversation.

It was what we did," Helen [Clyne, Kate Atkinson's daughter] said. "It was a habit, a ritual. You borrowed it, you read it, you brought it back and chose something else, and someone else read whatever you read before and after you. It was communal. That's what public library means: something communal.

That's what a public library means: something communal. - Kate Atkinson

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

The next night was quite different. They came at sundown to a settlement. The houses were brown and homelike

A)nd while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.

Strange, she thought, how friends come when you need them most! Some of them come and stay a long time...others come in and go out, but always leave something of themselves.

The teacher didn't make people with disabilities out to be heroes or sad stories. It was just a description of the world in which people with disabilities were real and present.

The English are frosty When you're no kith or kin Of theirs, but how they alter When once they take you in! The kindest, the truest, The best friends ever known, It's hard to remember How they froze you to a bone.

What does it matter if she breaks something, compared to her feeling as though she belongs?

Franklin Square series and

I feel so saturated with Maine, but am so separate from its people.

Anche se tendiamo a credere il contrario, la gioia si condivide meno della sventura.

We are surrounded by story.

For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life.

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I am standing somewhere underground, in an underworld, with all the others. I never wanted this.

We go where we live—there is nowhere else.

I want us to be better people.

Can you hear me, all of you?