Community Quotes

• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Community
  • Tolerance
  • Acceptance

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Work
  • Business
  • She

• My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Environment
  • Growth
  • Balance

• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Power
  • Team
  • Sports

• Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Society

• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Live
  • Community

• We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Community
  • Action
  • Support

• Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Family
  • Society
  • Education

• The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Pretty
  • Community
  • Theatre

• There's nothing more fun than just walking through town or maybe going to a community-based festival. How much does that cost? Nothing!

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Walking

• I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Training
  • Mountain

• Accountability is going to be very important for the international community,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Importance
  • Accountability

• A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Character
  • Culture

• I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Community
  • Police

• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Real

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