Quotes About Community

That's one of the only things I look forward to about an evening like this, you know -someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening. Otherwise you have no one with whom to talk over whatever may have happened during the evening. Dinner parties are often more fun to talk about than they are to attend - at least they aren't complete until they've been discussed.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." Call

Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.

work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948

All were looking for enclaves of civilization. None had thought to build his own.

Now I look at this story and it seems to be about all of us.

From the bluffs east of the city, Gladstone, Montana looks as though it could have been laid out by a shotgun blast, the commercial and residential districts a tight cluster in the center and then the buckshot dispersing in the looser pattern of outlying houses and businesses owned by those Montanans for whom space is a stronger article of faith than neighborliness.

Mercer County, Montana.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

What brings you to our little corner of the world? And how can I go about making it your favorite corner?

One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?

Lupita thought that people who didn't dance were selfish and lonely.

Look ma'am, those narcos that mutilate, torture, and kill others are no longer a part of us. They're no longer part of any family or community; they act against everyone. They are worth nothing. But when you bury a narco, you allow him to be a part of you again. He becomes dust, food, our brother once more. His body—dissolved in the earth—now sustains life again, instead of destroying it.

Plenty of people on the street but all glued to their phones. Everyone was perpetually connected, but to what? She

It was the sort of corruption Alex expected to hear about happening south of the border, not in her own backyard.

San Francisco, September 13, 1915 Believe me, there is no place like the country to live, and I have not heard of anything so far that would lead me to give up Rocky Ridge for any other place.

Laura thought of Ma's saying, It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

Well, Caroline, it's pleasant to be with a crowd of people all trying to do the right thing, same as we are.

Flags were everywhere, and in the Square the band was playing "Yankee Doodle." The fifes tooted and the flutes shrilled and the drums came in with rub-a-dub-dub. Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni!

I declare, Indians are getting so thick around here that I can't look up without seeing one." As she spoke she looked up, and there stood an Indian. He stood in the doorway, looking at them, and they had not heard a sound. "Goodness!" Ma gasped.

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. —ANONYMOUS