Famous Quotes & Sayings

I can tell you that he really stepped up to community responsibility at a time that Rochester really needed a publisher to not just be in Rochester but to be of Rochester.

I can't go out to eat without someone talking to me about it. This one topic has pulled the community apart, and it's got people fighting.

If we can't keep any police officers, and if we can't keep teachers and firefighters, we are going to be a community that can't function.

I have had to learn to stop talking and start listening. Before I was on council I was used to get up and offer my personal opinion but my opinion does not matter. I also enjoy working with the people on council. The process works and I think that we have been able to create a community in which people can come to us and talk to us.

I don't have the same level of conviction (against impeachment) I had a week ago, ... I'm willing to reconsider this issue, especially in light of the fact that I'm having a community meeting.

Stephen Larkham

I'd like to hope that in years to come, he might come back and actually give something back to the community that's given him so much.

I'd love to see that. I hope the community embraces what we're trying to do.

I'd like to utilize my experience ... and help the community grow in the manner they want to grow.

I disagree, but the community spoke, and they outvoted me.

I could see other communities being in this situation. You have to think about whether you want to be an 11-man community. This community does. We've got to make 11-man football work and this schedule makes it work.

I couldn't sleep last night I was so nervous. I am so grateful to the community and the foundation for this opportunity.

Jay Nixon

I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this; no one deserves this. We must do better, and we will.

I am here today to express BP's deep regret over yesterday's accident. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died and with those from the work force and the community who were injured.

I am here today to express BP's deep regret over yesterday's accident, ... Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died and with those from the work force and the community who were injured.

Bill Lester

I am glad that the minority community took an interest. However, I am driving for myself.

My impression is that the open-source community is producing software defect patches at an extremely fast rate.

One project I identified last year as a potential source of new revenue through a joint venture with a private firm to construct a planned community on university property stalled, but still has potential.

One of the strengths we're seeing in terms of our downtown community is growth in health care-related industry.

One of our main priorities over the past two months has been to find new positions for our team members. We have hosted two job fairs with over 25 employers participating in each. We have also helped team members contact other community resources, such as Nevada Job Connect, and provided one-to-one counseling when needed. As of today, about 90 percent of our team members have found new positions.

One of our concerns as a group is that they don't necessarily hear enough back from the community on how we hear and perceive the sometimes tortured and hair-splitting positions they try to take. We are tired of being seen as the embarrassment to the party.

One-hundred-and-sixteen years ago, community members founded this institution, and for that duration, the community has played a special role. Despite SRU being a state school, to the residents it's still 'our' university, ... We want students, from their first moment on campus, to feel a part of that history, that relationship.

Kofi Annan

no one in the international community defended what the Iranian president said and the Security Council itself issued a statement.

No one seems to have a vision for the future of the community and that high school. Boca High is going to be stuck on that little parcel of land.

No one library can ever hold all of this information in one place. It's also facilities. It's also staff ? now the community members will be exposed to so many.

My first five transactions were from people who presently live on the river and want to stay there. Their homes are worth a lot of money, and they want to move into a condo with no maintenance that has a sense of community for a half a million.

To the community of Huntington, thanks for putting this together, and we're looking forward to a great time.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Without those guys there, that site wouldn't operate. They work together and that means a lot for the community. They have that camaraderie. Everyone knows what to expect of each other.

The program is open to churches, community groups, or whoever has the time. We need to match volunteers with the needy in order to help keep them independent.

There are pros and cons to everything. but I feel like with a private community, they have more say of what goes on in the community than in a city.

Bob McNair

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

This will be very helpful to us to see what percentage of people in the community are using us or are using the Naval Hospital, New Hanover, Craven and Pitt. This way we can get a feel for why they are making those choices.

Jasmine Guy

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.