Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

Charlize Theron

I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.

Charles Rangel

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Charles Rangel

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

David Brin

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Armstrong Williams

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Arnold J. Toynbee

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Jim Jarmusch

Wayne, New Jersey, ... And shooting in it was very depressing. Because everyone has the same stuff, you know? The same TV, the same cars, their kids dress the same. But then the people in the community were really, really nice to us. Very enthusiastic and kinda lovely. But before that human connection, it was just depressing to me, to be in that kind of hermetically sealed community. I think a lot of people actually live in places like that, more and more.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

Louis de Bernieres

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Mark Latham

The one thing we're going to have to have while making this transition is patience. Our community is going to need to be patient because a lot of times we are going to be playing schools two times the size we are.

Wesley Clark

The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,

Amy Wright

The perceived conduct of Vision House owner Michael O'Sullivan is counterproductive for offenders under community supervision, so I must relocate this small group to more appropriate housing.

The point is to show the entire community that without us many things would stop.

We are proud of the extraordinary efforts of the more than 225,000 Red Crossers who put their day-to-day lives on hold to selflessly help their neighbors in need. Some of them lost everything in these storms, yet they put the needs of their community before their own.

We struggled mightily with this RFP but it will direct a consultant not to lead a study but facilitate the community's study. We're not just giving lip service to community involvement.

There are concerns, of course, about the danger to the community and livestock. We are trying to find their movement pattern.

Bobby Rush

There are communities that are moving forward now because (the Community Reinvestment Act) ... was the economic engine.

We still need community support. We want out-of-towners to see that everyone is involved in this.

We're not going to suggest what we're proposing is consistent with the existing community.

Until the 1990s, the international community did little to stop wars. Now it does lots.

Barbara Smith

We've always been struggling with obesity in medicine. We've all recognized it will take a community effort to tackle the problem.

Pat Brown

When we were younger, education was not an option; it was something that we were expected to do. I wanted to do something positive in the community where I grew up.

We're going to the summit as students and community members to state our side and make our point of view known to the general community, seeing as the ONDCP isn't going to provide that perspective to the community.

Eugene Hutz

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

Julie Davis

What we're looking for is a vibrant community, one that is growing.