Community Quotes · Page 163

I don't remember a time when it wasn't, when I didn't feel like the LGBTQ community was part of my life and…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I think stories in a community are really useful because they pass on lessons to learn, to remember people.

— Nia DaCosta

“This is about Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and is experiencing this pain with…

— Angie Thomas

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking…

— Chita Rivera

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what…

— Pico Iyer

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

— Karl Jaspers

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

— Juno Temple

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and…

— Jimmy Wales

What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group…

— J. August Richards

“If you want to have a community of people who have both high-quality, long-term relationships and a high sense of personal responsibility,…

— Ray Dalio

“Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better…

— Bauvard

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet…

— Alvin Toffler

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a…

— Michael Polanyi

There were so many people who were instrumental in helping me get better. They say it takes a village, and the tennis…

— Katrina Adams

My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming…

— Janelle Monae

I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a…

— Barack Obama

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter…

— Glenn Close

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken…

— Helmut Kohl

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I…

— Tatiana Maslany

“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with…

— Gabor Maté

We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the…

— Tamron Hall

It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that…

— Zack de la Rocha

I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if…

— Cory Booker

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the…

— One9

Everyone can be the heroes of their own story. And it's really important to find community and strength within the people around…

— Kiana Madeira

Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

— Rashad Evans

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've…

— Harmony Korine

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

— Paul Tsongas

I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.

— Paul Pierce

Sense of community was really fostered by Larry Laurenzano, who was a great educator.

— Jon Gordon

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— Edmund White

Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

— Winnie Byanyima

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

— Sam Walton

I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such…

— Lynda Carter

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was…

— Frederick Lenz

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

— Mickey Kaus

I grew up as a little gay boy in Paris, Texas, which was a very conservative community and I had a strong…

— Shangela

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

— Boy George