Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and 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.

Eugene Hutz

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

Julie Davis

What we're looking for is a vibrant community, one that is growing.

We would really like to get out into the community more next year.

What has this taught us? It takes a community to get involved.

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.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

She has inspired this community in so many dramatic ways.

She didn't know her family, just went from house to house in the community to live.

She failed our son, our family and (the) community she's supposed to be serving.

She left a big huge void in the community, so I'm concerned that there won't end up being the huge donations from the community, and we've always been known as the community with a heart.

Most of the time, kids are just curious. This is designed to curb that curiosity. The program has grown over the years, mainly because the community itself has grown.

Most of these projects are community-based. We try to give a name that helps personify the community in which we're building.

Mr. Hoffman conducted thefts from our community over a number of years.

Mr. Gibson is very respectful of students and student self-governance. He understands our community and knows how it works, and he really enjoys the role of teacher and mentor.

Much of the work was done by the parishioners themselves, ... It speaks well of the parish, as a group, working together as a community of faith.

MSHA and the entire mining community extend our deepest condolences when miners are in danger.

Meaning that we will be offering more mental health services for our patients and community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live...

Aristotle

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Aristotle

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Barton Seaver

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

Eddie Vedder

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

Ed McMahon

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.