Quotes About Community

This tent's open to the south and north, and the roads are broad and lead to green lands and black lands and there's plenty to do in the world - sift flour, hammer iron, beat rugs, plow furrows, gossip about the neighbors, cast fishing nets - but what there is to do here is listen.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

We keep the wolves outside by living well.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching.

Life's a carnival.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Remember that the Lord God said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' So a man should love his wife as himself and honor her more than himself.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers.

The Knox family were all there, as neither George's Catholicism nor his Presbyterianism prevented him from supporting the vicar, who was a great friend.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Don't forget about us. No lights are too bright to forget where you come from. Remember. Remember.

Ramón's wife's brother's cousin's sister

We don't use our titles when we are among people who understand Magyk. - Septimus Unless they are being very annoying. - Marcia

But then, he smiled to himself, they were all in the same boat now.

pooper scooper (also poop scoop)

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

If more people were screamin', I could relax.