Quotes About Community

Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here.

There's a sense of authenticity that comes with 'Ebony.' There are very few national media outlets that are majority-African-American owned and really speak to our community with a sense of pride, authority, and ownership. That's what we do.

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

'Fringe' has been a point of pride. I share the passion for the show that the fans have.

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.