Quotes About Community

Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.

Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.