Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Grant

The people of Independence are part of our extended family. We feel very responsible to help the community get back on its feet. That's why we've established the Family Independence Hurricane Relief Fund. Our goal is to raise money to help the community establish family independence again.

Scott Fujita

The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to do so, even today, shows how deep this connection is. I'm honored to be a part of this organization and so proud to retire as a New Orleans Saint.

Sarah Steele

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

bell hooks

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

bell hooks

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

bell hooks

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

Ban Ki-moon

I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

Ban Ki-moon

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Derrick Jensen

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

Billy Crystal

Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

Anton Yelchin

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

Brooke Shields

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

Edmund Burke

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

Dee Hock

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

Earl Blumenauer

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Brad Bird

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

Auguste Comte

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Bertrand Russell

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Benjamin Crump

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Cameron Sinclair

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

Clarence Stein

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

Elizabeth Kenny

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Elizabeth Kenny

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

Arthur Henderson

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Aldous Huxley

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Alexander Lowen

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

Alexander Hamilton

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

Alexander Hamilton

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.