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Quotes About Membership

I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
~ John Updike
I'm a member of the Studio City Driving Range. They have a nice little par-3 AstroTurf course and driving range. You know, I don't belong to a course because I don't golf that much, so it's not worth it for me to join a club.
~ Kevin Nealon
If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
~ Jeb Bush
We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.
~ Kevin Chamberlin
I joined the SDP as a founder member a few days after my 18th birthday in 1981. I was a councillor, activist and parliamentary candidate for the SDP and its successor party, the Liberal Democrats, for 14 years before joining Labour when Tony Blair became leader and abolished Labour's old clause IV - committing to general nationalisation - in 1995.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
To be clear, all white nationalists/anti-Semites are banned from Proud Boys even if they never bring up said topics.
~ Gavin McInnes
When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.
~ Emily Thornberry
If the EU doesnÂ''t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides donÂ't need to waste their time with negotiations.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.
~ Jorma Kaukonen
It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Illarionov resigned his position as sherpa—Putin's personal representative—to the Group of Eight; winning Russia's full membership in the G8 had been one of Illarionov's main accomplishments.
~ Masha Gessen
The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer. Its membership did not grow fast in quantity or quality. There were no concrete results achieved.
~ Ayn Rand
From the point of view of the benefits to the revolution, [we decided] to allow voting only by those who are the genuine party guard.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Se puede ser miembro activo de una Iglesia, pero inactivo en la práctica de su evangelio.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The position I now favor is that economics is a pre-science, rather like astronomy before Copernicus, Brahe and Galileo. I still hold out hope of better behavior in the future, but given the travesties of logic and anti-empiricism that have been committed in its name, it would be an insult to the other sciences to give economics even a tentative membership of that field.1
~ Steve Keen
Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent
~ Steven Kotler
Here's the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. That sentence should be written in capital letters. Every person is unique—and not just in a trivial manner: importantly, significantly, meaningfully unique. Group membership cannot capture that variability. Period.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Why did they continue to enter Lodges until they had the rule of them? There must have been something more in their association, for they had their clubs, societies, and learned fellowships.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
This was his home now. He was a member of ThunderClan.
~ Erin Hunter
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
~ Erma Bombeck
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
~ Erma Bombeck
Whether we like it or not, the moment we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, from the time we become a Christian, we are at the same time a member of the Christian church
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I remain a very reluctant member of the Conservative Party. On the principle that one sort of ought to. Unfortunately, in 21st-century Britain I have no political home whatever. I get very sickened at the conventional right-wing label.
~ David Starkey
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
~ Michael McCaul