Quotes About Community

who brought their knitting in public, just to keep him from the feeling that the clock was ticking at odd hours of the day with nothing to fill the time.

How fucking hard is it to find one lousy teenager? Seriously? This town is the size of a condom machine—

Between them all, the simplest, most obvious name for the place was Promise House.

there a tiny tribe on an island in the South Pacific that is being destroyed by climate change and does not get any sort of technology that does

Cause when they're pissed at me, at least they know I'm there," Mackey said. "You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can't do that when someone wants to slug you.

There is no cure for hell," she said softly. "There's only showing it to other people so they can share the burden.

Hey, I can get clear.' It's why we make music and paint pictures. So humans know we're not alone.

you don't have to be a saint to want to be treated like a human being, do you know that? Yes, I know he's an addict. So the hell what? You don't write him off because of it. You don't write me off because I care for him. We're people, that's all. Miserable, stupid, fucked-up people, and all we have in this world to hold on to is each other. Can you understand that?

But all in all, it's no big deal—you came out at a funeral, I came out in court, and together, we're town legend. Go us.

Okay, we know that you are all at the age when your peers start to ask certain questions, and in this town, everybody is going to make certain assumptions about us politically, but we need you to know something.

Oh my God… we're some sort of gay enforcement squad!

Your vibe attracts your tribe.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

If he stops Arnold, it would be for the good of the people of Boston. Arnold was a wolf in sheep's clothing and needed to be exposed for who he

Lincoln had no fears of a powerful central government, for he believed, along with other Whigs, that the purpose of government was "to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all or can not, so well do, for themselves.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

The suffering of mental illness, whether for the afflicted or for their families, is typically marked by isolation. When people desperately need to experience the love and empathy of their fellow human beings and to know that their Creator has not abandoned them, many reach out and are shocked to touch the church's painfully cold shoulder.

Wapsie Valley, known for producing red kernels. (The legend behind Wapsie Valley is that at corn shuckings, any man who found a red kernel could kiss the girl of his choice, and Wapsie Valley could turn an innocent gathering into a free-for-all.)

If I could give something to Fleurette?—if I could give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had?—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

What I didn't say to Francis was that when Lucy grabbed me on the street in Paterson that day, I couldn't understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer[.]

we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.