Quotes About Community

Those who know me would say I'm a passionate and hard-working mom and a community leader who knows how to get things done.

I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see this over and over - in communities of people who are grappling with body issues, in the LGBT community.

We grew up and I feel like we're achieving a level of success through music that's allowing us to see the world. I want that for people where I come from. I want them to achieve that same thing through their passions. It's important that when we reach these places, that we still are who we are, and we never forget where we come from.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.

I feel French, beyond the passport.

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

I used to think you needed a passport to go south of Watford. But when I came to London the people were fantastic, so good, right down to earth, my kind of people.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.