Quotes About Community

Faith is about offering emotional and practical help to your neighbours while expecting nothing in return: you do so simply because you think it's needed.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

I practically knew everyone in my town, and now they're all cheering for me. It's humbling and exciting, too.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

We're from Anaheim, that's our stomping grounds, that's where we grew up. That's where we practiced in the garage, that's where we went to high school.

One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.

Having my own gym is easier because I have my family here, my kids enjoy watching my practices and I like having them around. It's hard to go to other people's gyms because not everyone if as kid-friendly as I am.

There were a number of reasons I decided to join the New York City Police Department back in 1984. I felt a calling to protect and serve my neighbors, and I wanted to reform negative departmental practices from within. On top of those factors, becoming a police officer gave me a pathway to the middle class.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion's share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.