Community Quotes · Page 154

Valvoline, which has called Lexington home for more than 30 years, is a great employer that gives back to our community.

— Jim Gray

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

— Marina Abramovic

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

— Robert Adams

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

— Aquaria

I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power

— Narendra Modi

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

— Chris Rock

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

— Henry Mintzberg

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can…

— Steve Bullock

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the…

— Ice Cube

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is…

— Nita Ambani

When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early…

— Steve James

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the…

— Louis Aragon

“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the…

— Alan Bennett

I feel like I was born to do this. When I signed with the WWE, the newspaper and TV stations in my…

— Mojo Rawley

The people there, the community, the lessons that I learned -- they're all based right in this few square miles where we'll…

— Barack Obama

Several years ago, I was asked by a songwriter's association to go to Nashville - I think it involved some kind of…

— Justin Hayward

I don't know what the comics community could do to make everyone feel welcome; I'm cynical and unsure if everyone can feel…

— Liz Prince

Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able…

— Andrea Dworkin

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to…

— Dalai Lama

The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God…the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and…

— Gabriel Fackre

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society…

— Karl Marx

“In the land of the rejected, the field is flattened, open to much oppurtunity. Here flourish the weeds and nonstandard quality alike.…

— Alec Mackaye

I think the sweet thing about my job, more than the music I sing, is that I come into some town and…

— Greg Brown

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

— Gillian Jacobs

The things I'm good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

— Caterina Fake

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

— John Dewey

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.”

— Suwardi Surjaningrat

The size of your community doesn't matter as much as the depth of your connection with them.

— Chris Pirillo

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they…

— Ray Rice

I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and…

— Matty Healy

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

— Ayanna Pressley

My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

— David Batstone

Community banks are a crucial part of our economy and the fabric of our society.

— Jerome Powell

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain…

— Paul Prudhomme

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

— Daniel Quinn

The more successful Navy SEALs there are, the more glory it reflects on the community and the better it is for our…

— Eric Greitens

“These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.”

— Christopher Heuertz

Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college.

— Jill Biden