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.

Charles Handy

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

Bob Brown

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

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.

Bill Griffith

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Betty Friedan

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

Bill Gates

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

We are all products of the communities we live in. That's why giving back to the community is so important. This way you're supporting the libraries, the museums, the head-start programs, the playground equipment in the parks, meals on wheels and the local scouts. The community is so important, we should give back to it.

The regret I have is that it was a community event that went commercial. But so did everything else, I guess.

Therefore, it is no surprise when the United States is confronted with an event like Hurricane Katrina that those in the international community have responded in kind.

Women voting in the community outnumber the men. We have to realize that we hold the power.

We're going to look at the last strategic plan and come up with a method for a good strategic plan by the end of the year, with community involvement.

Unfortunately, most of the community is satisfied except the Friends of Salmon Creek.

Usually I know what at least five other school systems are doing. One superintendent could tell me what three systems were doing today. We share what each other's street departments have told us so I know what another community that is adjacent to us is being told compared to mine.

We're doing everything to keep our employees and utilize them in the most productive manner in an effort to have our community return to the way it was.

Yes, absolutely. It has to be doable. It has to be. This is for the community.

World Community Grid represents a new model for philanthropic giving,

With the impact that the Hispanic community is having on American culture, the time is now.

With the help of the area's professionals we're going to take the voice of this community even higher.

Craig Roberts

With all them being involved, it makes more of a community effort out of the whole event, which is what keeps the whole homecoming idea alive. And the result of that is something that's lasted longer than any of us, and hopefully it'll continue doing that.

With my whole family, it's always been about community service and helping others before helping yourself. But I've never done anything like this before.

We're expecting the flows will rise in the Red Earth community in the next 24 hours, and probably hit their peak within that 24-hour period, or just outside it.

We're extremely pleased to have Paul as our general manager for the World Championship. We've been fortunate to be able to fill our management roles with elite members of the hockey community for many years and Paul no doubt continues that trend.