Community Quotes · Page 157

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

— Adrian Grenier

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

— David Shuster

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people…

— Kiran Rao

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work…

— Jill Biden

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

— Jack Kemp

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

— Eric Hobsbawm

I will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities.

— Barack Obama

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

— Harper Lee

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's…

— Michelle Obama

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is…

— Henry Ford

Here, anyone can become president. We've had haberdashers, generals, lawyers, peanut farmers, community organizers and a real estate developer, to name a…

— Martha MacCallum

When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside…

— Susan Sarandon

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table…

— Talib Kweli

By leveraging technology, innovation, and the power of community, Weight Watchers will be able to realize the full growth potential of the…

— Mindy Grossman

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent…

— Albert Bandura

Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more…

— Robin Hahnel

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from…

— George Bernard Shaw

So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the…

— Michael Kirby

I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested…

— Harrison Ford

Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my…

— Lamman Rucker

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands…

— Annie Besant

My job as an artist is to take all my thoughts and feelings and put them on your iPod so that you…

— Lalah Hathaway

“Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a…

— Barry Lopez

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

— Carrot Top

“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Social wars of a society should aim to reinstate a dignified life where love can thrive; not to create a future bound…

— Wayne Chirisa

Big dreams bring all sorts of challenges. To meet them, you have to have character, courage and a commitment to contribute to…

— Rudy Ruettiger

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

— H. G. Wells

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

— Bill Maher

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the…

— Drew Brees

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

— John Lasseter

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

— Robert K. Greenleaf

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

— Blake Shelton

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

— Neil Armstrong

A stereotype is that all gay men know everything there is to know about the LGBTQ community. We don't.

— Tan France

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

— Corri Wilson

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

— John Cameron

I want to have a really big impact on my kids, my community, and my company.

— Julie Sweet