Quotes About Involvement

Many have called men back to church. Now it's time to call the church back to men.

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

Remember the French saying: 'He who is absent is always wrong.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Non-alcoholic ways in which parents may not 'be there' for the children can include: - violence and sexual abuse - workholism - gambling - transquilliser addiction- - womanizing - frequent journeys abroad - death - suicide - being unemployed or unemployable - frequent hospitalisation - mental or physical handicap - excessive religiosity - rigid rules and regulations - homes where children are never allowed to be themselves but must always be pleasing to adults

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

work is achieved not by creating a hermetic space sealed off from the world, but nel mezzo, in the middle of everything.

We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Giving is the only way of taking part

Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Involved, period.

Everyone hates the mob, but everyone belongs to it

To be a green and juicy crone comes from having lived long enough to be deeply rooted in wholehearted involvements, of living a personally meaningful life, however unique, feminist, or traditional it may appear to others. It has to do with knowing who we are inside and believing that what we are doing is a true reflection or expression of our genuine self. It is having what Margaret Mead called PMZ, or postmenopausal zest for the life you have.

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

Luca even hears Abuela lightly scolding them all, not because she actually disapproves, Luca realizes, but because a casual reprimand is Abuela's way of participating, and that is the thing, really,

arms raised. "Me, me!" she says. "Good, I need lots of helpers!" "I heard he was a

Organizations Linked to the Parties of the Left In all countries it was these organizations that were generally the most active.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

We become part of what we are around. — Unknown