Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sullivan

(The community center) is a gem, and we don't want to push our way in. We want to be invited. It doesn't have to happen immediately.

J. J. Johnson

The community can rest a little easier tonight.

E. B. White

The community can look at the post and determine the usefulness. The stronger messages of more value can rise to the top.

The community as a whole would like to see this item resolved.

Jason Hanson

The community and school are in a buzz. It is a nice feeling.

The community and our friends have stepped forward so much.

The community always comes out of hibernation to help make the walk a success. Walkers, sponsors, people with MS and volunteers come together ... that's why I look forward to the walk every year.

The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.

The concerts are good for our community's culture. A woman who has moved here from another area, for example, was so pleased to find a community our size with as many cultural events as we have.

The concern that I would have is as long as there are johns in the community who are willing to pay money to have sex with prostitutes, the problem is going to exist.

The concept of community involvement is a joke.

Ralph Nader

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Shane Claiborne

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Shane Claiborne

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Serge Lang

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Serge Lang

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Sean Duffy

For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.

Michael Polanyi

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

Michael Porter

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Pollan

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

Michael Pollan

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

Michael Pollan

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Sherrod Brown

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

John Monash

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

John Dewey

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

John Dewey

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

John Dewey

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

John Dewey

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

John Dewey

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Gbenga Akinnagbe

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

Joe Arpaio

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

Madeleine L'Engle

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.