Famous Quotes & Sayings

Common

Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.

Dwyane Wade

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

Colin Powell

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

We understand the pain and the hurt of the Muslim community but I am urging Muslims around the world to understand the repercussions of their actions, that their pain has been usurped by Islamic extremists.

Harry Smith

We understand that the police station has never had a landline telephone, and so in keeping with our community involvement we are donating two phones with some credit to the police which, we hope, will enhance their effectiveness to the community.

Bob McNair

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

This will be very helpful to us to see what percentage of people in the community are using us or are using the Naval Hospital, New Hanover, Craven and Pitt. This way we can get a feel for why they are making those choices.

This will be part of a total community disaster management program.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There are growing pressures on us -- in part from the donor community -- to say there is a limit to what you can stand.

There are a number of nicknames that have to do with a town's history or community heritage. Some are just different or unique for other reasons. We run the gamut here in Michigan.

When you have someone else from the community or your family going there it makes you want to experience the same thing.

There are a couple of companies we are looking at for a title sponsor. But there is a lot more flexibility to put together a community ownership. Everybody understands the sense of urgency to put this together as quick as we can. As soon as we get the funding, the better off we will be, but I can?t put a date on it.

We always welcome the community in our district, but this week in particular, we invite the people to visit our schools.

We always spend New Year's Eve with kids anyway, so we thought it would be fun for the kids of the community and a fairly inexpensive option for baby-sitting for their parents.

When you look at any great team, one thing that they have is longevity on their staffs. When you are together for a number of years, things become habit. When you develop good habits, that filters down to the community and players.

When you go to a public meeting it's generally the same 20 people expressing their opinion. Once in a while its nice to go out and see what the public as a whole feels about a variety of issues. It would be nice to take direction from the community as a whole.

We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.

Fred Wilson

We've got to be very, very careful, ... We don't want to put the problem into the community either.

This ride is an interactive scenic tour. Riders are there to have fun and maybe learn something about their community at the same time.

There has been strong community interest and compassion. The community has stepped up and donated through the faith-based agencies. I'm feeling good about this heating season in contrast to last year's.

Louis C. K.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

Louis C. K.

I love comedians. They're my community.

We're thrilled with the turnout. It's wonderful that the community responds to this event year after year.

We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.

We saw how important music is in the community and how vital it is to the life of the church.

We said to the community, 'Look, we're drowning. We need your help. You need to be more judicious in who you are sending to us because we can't accommodate them all,'

We said to ourselves, we want to welcome everyone in the group and support the troops and their families, and we've been steadfast in that view. The community response has been terrific.

We need to do everything we can to help in those families with parenting skills, with community support.

We thought the potential was there because the community is growing so quickly, and that it would service a smaller community and keep it local.

We thought it was going to be successful, but nothing like it has been. In the first full year, we had 200,000 people go through the gates, and we're a community of 85,000.

We thought it could become a good opportunity for the community and the Chamber." ()

We think we do something that really makes a difference in the community, when we lose materials, we're unable to serve the community as well as we usually do.

Karen Miller

We think we can raise that from a community that's already been so generous -- we think we can raise that and more,