Community Quotes
-
It's a really big weekend. There's a lot more on the line for us. We're playing to try to get somewhere, even if it's a community college. We're trying to get looked at.
Walter Washington
-
We must understand that when one country is not safe, the world is not safe. Pandemic influenza, by nature, will go around the world, so it is important for us to work as an international community to get a better handle on the issue.
Margaret Chan
-
If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.
Kenneth Chenault
-
Progressive policies are harming the Black community.
Deneen Borelli
-
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
-
The Jewish people are very diverse, and I believe this rich tapestry of identities and experiences strengthens our community.
Lynn Schusterman
-
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham
-
I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
Nigel Lawson
-
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.
Tony Blair
-
When I go visit my mom in the retirement community where my parents live, she has a bunch of friends, and she will say, 'These neighbors I play bridge with have a son with an idea,' and it goes from there.
Aileen Lee
-
Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
David Hewson
-
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
Moshe Safdie
-
There was simply this bullying, reduction of 25 percent, which most of us in the community was malicious, and petty, and the sort of thing that most of grew out of a long time ago.
Eric Murray
-
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
Joe Baca
-
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
David Sanborn
-
I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.
Ann Cotton
-
The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.
Lisa Ling
-
SOCIAL DISTANCING is about protecting individuals, in our community, who are more at-risk of contracting fatal symptoms than others.
Cristina Garcia
-
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
Jim Ramstad
-
'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.
Kenya Barris
-
I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.
Alex Weisman
-
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
-
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.
Eric Betzig
-
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Stanley Hauerwas