Quotes About Community

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

I love being a Duke student, and continuing to be part of the university culture is something I don't take for granted.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

It's good to go and get photographs taken with people who come out and support you. I don't mind that, having a chat and shaking people's hands.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

While our social life is taken care of by the social media, fitness is one activity that needs a push.

Our government strives to create an independent and impartial judiciary that applies the law without bias or favoritism. And we are incorporating into our security forces all Iraqis who have taken up arms to defend their families and communities.

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

We must never forget that Singapore is home for all races and this harmonious relationship must not be taken for granted.

We are givers, not takers.