Community Quotes · Page 129

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

— Tony Evans

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

— Jim Gray

The film is intended to unite people and not create division in the society. 'Partition' talks about peace and humanity.

— Huma Qureshi

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

— Malik Yoba

It's a really nice thing for me to give back to the community and give things that I didn't necessarily have growing…

— Sam Kerr

I think the Port of Palm Beach has an opportunity to thrive, if they can figure out how to do it with…

— Lois Frankel

The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

— Adam Silvera

My whole life has been about building community, building business in our community, empowering people in our community.

— Richelieu Dennis

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate…

— Jim Nollman

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are…

— Martti Ahtisaari

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability…

— Jay Rockefeller

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community,…

— Angela Rayner

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any…

— Vin Diesel

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in…

— Nelson Mandela

The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is…

— David Ogilvy

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there…

— Diana DeGarmo

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who…

— Gary Taubes

“You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run…

— John Eldredge

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community.…

— Kendrick Lamar

So I've got mates I've known since I was five years old. Their children know my children. There's something really lovely about…

— Ainsley Harriott

Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual…

— Carl Jung

When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This…

— Helen Clark

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

— Miroslav Volf

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

— Hermann Biggs

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

— Warren Buffett

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

— Pinchas Lapide

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.

— Christine Gregoire

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

— Konrad Adenauer

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

— Rick Warren

Contact your local legislators to talk about your community's needs. Show up at City Council hearings and demand change.

— Michelle Wu

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

It's insane how many fans I have from the LGBTQ+ community. I would say the majority of my fanbase are young, gay…

— Sonya Deville

I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

— Ashton Sanders

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

— Jimmy Carter