Quotes About Community

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.

Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

The truth is that the war helped. The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. Much sorrow, many tears. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.

Ljudi se vide u patnji, narod na svadbi, a država u ratu.

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

Nema Srbija tu sre?u da susedi ratuju na njenoj strani.

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people.

We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

For this is a great sin, to not share with those who have thirst.

Where I saw we were all humans coming together to then become one of the people at the table for the "Galactic Federation.

Yes, and one of the insurance policies is that there are many of us. We're like a back-up support.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

town where people can draw water and drink from it, bathe in it and use it for any other purpose. His riches go to enjoyment, not to waste."3

So much of Valetto is negative space, I thought as I walked along, the conjuring of imaginary forms, but then you turn a corner and see the curled Cs of a dozen sleeping cats in the piazza, the clay-potted geraniums on the edges of stone stairs, the winter rooftop gardens, or the old man in a leather apron walking to the church every hour to ring the bronze bells, and you feel certain that this town of ten will be here forever.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

The more he loved and was loved, the better his life got. At once it seemed to Jack like a magical solution to everything. If only everyone loved everyone else! Then there would be no trouble in the world. It seemed so easy. If we all just reached our hands out to each other, what peaks of human joy could we not achieve!