Quotes About Community

Solar adopters often are found in neighborhood clusters in California, with three or four adopters located on the same block. Other consumer innovations like home computers are relatively less observable, and thus diffuse more slowly.

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

That's my Middle West-not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

Trouble is when you're sober you don't want to see anybody, and when you're tight nobody wants to see you.

In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.

A mí me gustan las fiestas con mucha gente. Son muy íntimas. En las fiestas con poca gente la intimidad es nula.

We walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again.

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.

Mais comment faites-vous pour y vivre seul? — Je m'arrange pour qu'elle soit pleine de monde, jour et nuit. Pleine de gens intéressants. Qui font des choses intéressantes.

gray, scrawny Italian child

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

Let's build a town where

E io adoro le grandi feste. Sono così intime. Nelle feste più piccole, non c'è privacy.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

Later on, still looking, she had tried to get involved with the Women's Community Center. She liked what they stood for but secretly wished they would wear just a little lipstick and shave their legs. She had been the only one in the room in full makeup, wearing pantyhose and earrings. She had wanted to belong, but when the woman suggested that next week they bring a mirror so they could all study their vaginas, she never went back.

Aunque esté sentada aquí en la Residencia Rose Terrace, mentalmente estoy dando cuenta de un plato de tomates verdes fritos en el café de Whistle Stop. Mrs. Virginia Threadgoode Junio de 1986

Questa era Slagtown un sabato sera qualunque, e a un isolato da lì la Birmingham dei bianchi fingeva d'ignorarne l'esistenza.

Jerry Falwell would be responsible for the raising of all illegitimate children who had no homes;

Fannie Flagg