Community Quotes · Page 147

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

— Fred Rogers

I was very fortunate to have a career like this. I wanted to put a lot back for the community.

— Edgar Davids

I personally cannot abandon my identity and my community to receive an accolade, and that's not to diminish the accolade.

— E. R. Fightmaster

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other…

— Randall Kennedy

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

— Robert Bly

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the…

— Mary E. DeMuth

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism…

— Bill Ayers

When you go into a new city, or any city that you play for, the community is a big part of every…

— P.K. Subban

“If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as…

— Kevin Wall

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending,…

— Alexi Giannoulias

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the…

— Edgar Mitchell

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it,…

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love,…

— Goapele

Working families have continuously fought for better wages, inclusion, a voice on the job, against threats to budget cuts, and a place…

— Laphonza Butler

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of…

— Desmond Tutu

Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in…

— Michelle Alexander

The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized…

— Pope John Paul II

“In community, people let down barriers; appearances and masks disappear. But this is not easy. Many people have built up their personalities…

— Jean Vanier

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information…

— Clifford Stoll

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day,…

— Miley Cyrus

The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let…

— Noam Chomsky

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're…

— Juan Enriquez

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

— Dorothy Day

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

— Austin Stowell

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to…

— Rick Warren

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

— Anonymous

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and…

— Kimbal Musk

Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

— Somaly Mam

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

— Jill Biden

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

— Jill Biden

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

— Norodom Sihanouk

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

— G. Frank Lawlis

We are trying to give something back to not just our own communities but to the communities of the world.

— Vlade Divac

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

— Tom Rath

I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

— Mike Vallely

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

— Holt McCallany

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

— David Novak

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in…

— Slobodan Milosević