Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Warren

There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations till there's peace in communities and families and in individual lives.

Rudy Giuliani

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

Sandra Cisneros

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

Samuel Johnson

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Saeb Erekat

Now, more than ever, the international community must act.

Wendell Phillips

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Wendell Berry

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

Wendell Berry

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

Wendell Berry

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

Wendell Berry

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Wendell Berry

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

William P. Leahy

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

William P. Young

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

Our community supports us and we support them.

Our community resource officers are heavily involved in this -- our school resource officer, our detective division -- (in) which individuals come out on different weekends.

Our community needs an immediate resolution, ... Our community has lost confidence in Dr. Ladner.

Our community is really learning to give and be generous. We are seeing that we can be givers at a much higher level.

Our community has spoken so loudly about all these needs and projects. They would be really dismayed if we could not move forward with these things.

Our community has been ready to mobilize, though we have not been able to provide them with the structure and leadership. Now we are all connected. We are all coordinating through the Internet.

Our community expects us to be Recognized, and that's what we're striving for.

Residents love this community and we want to keep it the way it is.

Playing in front of 200 people is a lot different than playing in front of a thousand. It takes you to another level of playing. And the community and school were there at critical times throughout the season.

Physicians had about the same degree of concern for the preparation of the medical community as they did for the federal government.

President Chirac expressed his hope that the international community would show solidarity with Lebanon on the economic and financial levels.

Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month using headlines and pictures from community archives.

Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets together to remember who we are and why we are here.

Charlie King

Part of what Mediacom is trying to do is become part of the economic development plans of our communities,

Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised our profile in the legal community in terms of the work we do and how we are a big part of the justice system.

Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is healthy.

Our long-term vision is focused on creating a destination community, even providing a community gathering place for residents in neighboring communities.

Lorin Maazel

Our Orchestra must also continue to play its leadership role in the community and in our nation. The young look to us to provide substance in place of dross, emotional depth in place of shallow titillation.

James Taylor

Our needs are so big, and our vision is so small. I'd just hate to see the community utilize its waterfront in a way that would preclude jobs.