Community Quotes - page 12

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. (Helen Fisher)
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. View quote
Shari Arison
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. View quote
Bela Lugosi
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. View quote
Bill Joy
A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. View quote
Vicki Myron
Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years. View quote
Dan Buettner
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. View quote
Dennis Rodman
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices. View quote
James Surowiecki
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. View quote
John McGahern
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others. (Eve Ensler)
As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. View quote
Ernst Toller
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like. View quote
Karin Fossum
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Do what you love in your community. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago. View quote
Amanda Hocking
The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. View quote
Leon Panetta
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. View quote
Lissa Rankin
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. View quote
Anita Roddick
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. View quote
Anita Roddick
If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community. View quote
Greg Mortenson
We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. View quote
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