Communities Quotes · Page 5

It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.

— Grant Shapps

“M did not like communities, which were usually filled with people, whom M liked even less.”

— Daniel Polansky

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not…

— Bell Hooks

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

— Soledad O'Brien

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being…

— Eric Holder

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

— Jens Stoltenberg

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

— Lee Scott

We have enough to worry about with what's happening in our nation to worry about what's happening in California. Keep your feet…

— Sher Valenzuela

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library…

— Karin Slaughter

Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that…

— Greg Abbott

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

— Katherine Boo

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell…

— Frans de Waal

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I…

— Paul Tonko

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service…

— Gary Miller

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian…

— Mitch Kapor

You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there…

— Charles Leadbeater

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes…

— Christine Quinn

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact…

— Barack Obama

We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of…

— Jenny Shipley

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns…

— Winona LaDuke

There are two strategies available in a partisan political environment for communities working for justice. You can join the Democratic Party -…

— Rick Perlstein

People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big…

— Irvine Welsh

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

— Cary Fukunaga

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

— Philipp Meyer

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the…

— Bonnie Bassler

I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's…

— Kat Graham

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it…

— Susan Choi

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

— Rosalynn Carter

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

— Keiji Fukuda

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

— Sher Valenzuela

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security…

— James Douglas

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds…

— Portia Simpson-Miller

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

— Sallust

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

— Raymond Kelly

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

— Julie Sweet

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

— Ban Ki-moon

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

— Vlade Divac