Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we did last year established our program in the eyes of the community. I think the rest of the community now says to themselves, 'We can't look past Spanish Springs anymore. They have some kids who know how to play ball.' I think we definitely have the respect of people in town now.

Bobby Seale

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

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.

Edward Sapir

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

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.

Brad Bird

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

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.

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.

Ben Stein

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

What we need to get done as a community is have a wider range (of houses) approved.

There are excellent services here, but this community just continues to grow and look for these specialized services.

We triage the community as we go through -- situations that we can respond to, situations we need to let go,

We really just want to give the community something special to do.

We're a diverse community, and we need diversity represented on the bench.