Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Baker

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

Jeremy Lin

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

Jennifer Grant

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Jim Gaffigan

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Jesse Jackson

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Jennifer Pahlka

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

Jeanette Winterson

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

Jim Costa

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

Christa McAuliffe

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Chrissie Hynde

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

Chris Pirillo

The size of your community doesn't matter as much as the depth of your connection with them.

George W. Bush

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George W. Bush

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

George Orwell

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

George Carlin

An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

Frank Vincent

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Eve Ensler

Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.

Jeff Sessions

Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

Jean Vanier

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!

Jean Vanier

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Jean Vanier

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

Jean Vanier

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Holly Near

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

He suits the consensus form of government that this community likes. And he'll get elected from now until Jesus comes if he wants.

J. J. Johnson

Gangs have become a huge issue in the community right now, and everyone needs to be involved in solving that problem.

Mark Wilson

Even if we had not saved anyone, we would still have been helping the local community deal with it by trying.

Rene Preval

Even the international community recognizes that it disengaged too quickly.

Even the human medical community has been visiting this part of the site.

Elected officials get elected by the community. They should remember that.

Either the community will provide a safe, supervised and simultaneously new and exciting experience for its young people. Or young people will provide their own entertainment.

Thomas Foley

Every student, when they take Management 100, satisfies a community service requirement. The minute you step in here and take Management 100, you're thinking not only about yourself but about the community.