Quotes About Community

It's a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.

I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

She liked noise, she liked people, and she especially liked noisy people.

That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.

And sometimes I think, man, all the people I get to hear this song with, we're going to miss each other when we die. When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

The place was out in Jersey . . . Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

the lives of the Codys in North Platte, Nebraska. Two other volumes have been especially helpful:

By 1849, when news of the discovery of gold in California reached the East, Isaac Cody was a solid citizen of his community. In 1847 he contracted with William F. Brackenridge to clear a six-hundred-acre farm on the Wapsipinicon River.

on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being offered to anyone willing to build on them. They refused this offer and pressed on to their final

When connectedness to others is truly understood, hurting others simply becomes impossible. Ignoring the plight of others or failing to appreciate what they add to the world is also impossible. Connectedness inherently creates an interest in the welfare of others because it becomes indistinguishable from self-interest.

a community riven by factions and sects, the very advances of the age at once opened new prospects for personal fulfillment and weakened the bonds of interdependence still more. These changes would also prepare the social and cultural ground for the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau.

Concord village was an outpost of urban civilization in the countryside.

Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual's life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.

For architects, towns and cities are just big display cases for their work. The fact that the place matters so much more than the building is something else they don't want to know. Making good cities is the last thing on their mind. As the heroic urbanist Jane Jacobs was heard to say, "the most cunningly ignorant people I know are architects.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.