Quotes About Community

The problem has not been finding a place where I belong, which is how a children's book might tell it, but of finding ways of insisting on belonging nowhere.

However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

Using a well-worn metaphor, culture can be viewed as the software that runs the hardware of human society.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in order to help him remember his colleagues at CERN. "The Web is more a social creation than a technical one," he explains.

Our Father which art in Hendon Harrow be thy name Thy Kingston come, Thy Wimbledon, In Erith as it is in Hendon. Give us this day our Leatherhead And forgive us our bypasses As we forgive those who bypass against us. Lead us not into Thames Ditton But deliver us from Ewell For thine is the Kingston, the Purley and Crawley For Esher and Esher, Crouch End.791

My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place to be living in, and one we can be quietly proud of.

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

You're a garbage woman with a badge,

ongoing blackout.

the vast majority of cops are good people doing a very difficult job. Even the assholes I've had to deal with were looking out for everyone else.

The whole reason this place exists is because of the broken homes these kids fall in and out of. This lady is doing her best to give them a stable environment.

People who share last names tend to be related and get together more often for meals and are less guarded about eating off one another's plates and exchanging germs. This creates pockets of infection over weekends that soon extend to schools and work. The presence of convention centers added to the calculation.

behind a forest on the edge of an unincorporated township. His closest neighbors include a dog breeder, a horse farm,

My life depends on a bunch of hipsters retweeting a plea from a man probably sitting on a Yoga ball right now.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It made her feel less alone, less diminished.

it was magic to feel you had things to say and people to say them to, and a gentle fog of contentment filled the bar...

It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.

I can be counted among the thirty million who voluntarily live in a country with annual plagues. A black death called winter that descends upon us all.

Trust the people' occasionally had to be tempered by common sense.

the village of Suomussalmi, in a ferociously brilliant Finnish operation that ranks with any of the Second World War. A logging, fishing and hunting community of 4,000 people before the war, it was captured by the 163rd (Tula) Motorized Rifle Division on 9 December, but was then cut off by the Finnish 9th Brigade under Colonel Hjalmar Siilasvuo.

Oh, talking to people. That's a thing I should do again sometime.