Quotes About Community

'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

I have worked for Tesco and am grateful to them but in principle I believe in individual shops.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.

When I was a kid, I saw Mardi Gras in New Orleans. So to me Party Rock was always wear your animal print, bring your no-lenses glasses, dress up in a bunch of colors and have fun. Animal print is a must.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

Nothing is more infuriating to me than the way the media and political parties conflate Hispanic-Americans and illegal immigrants. We are not one and the same, and our interests and priorities are often very different.

Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.

I want to fight hard for the values and priorities of my district.

I can't count a single conservative of my acquaintance that doesn't include charitable work in their list of priorities.

My priorities in Congress are shaped by the needs and concerns of our community, and I value the opportunity to hear directly from my constituents about the issues that matter most to them.