Quotes About Community

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance.

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

I'm from a city where the tears never end and the pain never stops.