Quotes About Community

But more important than all these lovely features of gracious living was the camaraderie of the young residents, who aspired to better lives on the wings of their talent and creativity.

Adriana Trigiani

I'll never get that far," Enza says. "We came to make money to buy our house. As soon as we do, we'll go home." "We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Neither anarchy, nor tyranny, my people. Worship the Mean, I urge you, shore it up with reverence and never banish terror from the gates, not outright.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Birds of a feather flock together.

A man who looks to his friends for help will take his time about a thing.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.

it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.

intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

During the descent, she gave the doily to the man across the aisle, worried about his ailing son, and the needlework was so elegant it made him feel better just to hold it. That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in.

politics is about the improvement of people's lives." I

Third: Become an advocate. By which I mean, pick an issue that means a lot to you (immigration, mental health, clean water) and look for an organization that's doing work on that issue. Join. Give them your email address. Go to the meetings. Become a foot soldier. You'd be surprised how quickly foot soldiers in these organizations can become

Make sure your voice is heard. Win the conversation. Speak at a Town Hall Meeting or Forum.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.

However disgruntled or puzzled a social hierarchy may leave us feeling, we are apt to go along with it on the resigned assumption that it is too entrenched and must be too well founded to be questioned. We are led to believe, in other words, that communities and the principles underpinning them are, practically speaking, immutable— even, somehow, natural.

Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self.