Community Quotes · Page 132

As businesses, as communities, as families, and friends, we need to go forward remembering that we're all connected in one way or…

— Doug McMillon

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live,…

— Danny K. Davis

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

— Jane Byrne

If you are somebody who is going to at some point be revealed as not like everyone else, then to be in…

— Simon Amstell

I just really felt I had to help the community I came from. I know how hard it is to make it…

— Jalen Rose

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow…

— Louise Erdrich

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the…

— Angela Davis

I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn't be the artist I was…

— Kiesza

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a…

— Helene D. Gayle

People who have come to the USA legally, who stood in line, who played by the rules, in the Latino and the…

— Mike Pence

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in…

— Wole Soyinka

The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who…

— Rza

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome…

— Jen Kirkman

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see…

— Henry Cisneros

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with…

— Bunker Roy

“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family…

— Robert Spector

White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability…

— Yance Ford

What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It…

— Oliver DeMille

If you're in a city where there's no clear startup community, the goal is not raise a bunch of money to fund…

— Brad Feld

“It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in…

— Holly Sprink

If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people,…

— Dolores Huerta

Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense…

— Alexander Lowen

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

My kids know that as long as they're part of the tumbling team, they're safe in the community.

— Jesse White

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

— Jeff Fortenberry

There isn't a way to depict the gay community without at least mentioning the existence of online dating apps like Grindr.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the…

— Rosamond Marshall

I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.

— Ted Wheeler

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

— Al Gore

You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it…

— James Wolfensohn

While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history.

— Richard Grenell

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

— Joni Mitchell

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

— Matt LeBlanc

I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

— Fred Hollows

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

— Charles Franklin Thwing

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the…

— Bernie Sanders

Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.

— Dinesh Paliwal

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

— Sarah Palin