Community Quotes · Page 159

I grew up in a Jewish community where you listened to 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'West Side Story.'

— Peaches

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays

— Beth Henley

I come from a poor community, and I still go back there whenever I can, and I think that makes it easier…

— Gabriel Jesus

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

— Don Lemon

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the…

— Julia Ward Howe

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

— Kathleen Turner

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

— Helene D. Gayle

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations…

— Steve Daines

Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize…

— Cody Wilson

We need to recognize that, whether you're looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of…

— Stacey Abrams

What we need to do, is restore those tools that have been taken away by the president [Barack Obama] and others, restore…

— Chris Christie

As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise…

— Kamala Harris

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the…

— James L. Brooks

I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the…

— Charles Rangel

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including…

— Robinson Cano

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or…

— Henri Nouwen

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have…

— Jimmy Carter

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even…

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Kendrick Lamar

There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The…

— Christine Jennings

“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic…

— Murray Bookchin

“The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to be a true part…

— Henri Nouwen

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

— Jim Rash

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

— Cheyenne Jackson

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

— Sanna Lenken

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

— Jay Ellis

I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called…

— John Lewis

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

Whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or atheist, everybody has a place in this society.

— Frans Timmermans

As the son of a retired emergency room nurse, I know how critical it is for a community to have access to…

— John Bel Edwards

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.

— Elbert Hubbard

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them…

— Jon Voight

The comedy community does not like me at all. It's ego-driven and competitive. Everyone's jealous of everybody, and I've been there.

— Matt Rife

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

— Theresa May

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

— Malik ibn Anas