Quotes About Community

For a while, I didn't want to leave the house. Eventually, I just got sick of being indoors. Now I take steps not to be noticed when I don't want to be. For instance, I live near Westfield shopping centre, so I won't go there at the weekend.

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting him each weekend. That instilled in me the value of taking care of each other even if the systems aren't working in your favor.

Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors.

The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time.

I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't necessarily come and see a film like 'Weekend.'

I take the kids horse riding every weekend at Quob Stables - the people there are lovely.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

We are poised for greatness here in Miramar, our foundation is sound, the question is what are we going to do with the foundation?

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Gossip is poison.

Communities have indicated they'd like support for an advisory board. See, communities want jobs. They don't want a company to go away. They work for those companies. That's how they feed their families, send their kids to college. But they don't want to be poisoned, either.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

I know Charles Michael Davis. I used to play poker with him when I lived in Los Angeles.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.

'Beyond The Pole's Facebook page has been incredibly instrumental in introducing us to new people and to making connections with journalists, cinemas everything.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.

The police need to come down to street level.

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.