Lewis Mumford Quotes

It takes a village to raise a child.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

With all my fans I got a family again.

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

All I have are the people.

People are longing for tribe and community.

Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.

I was looking to be in a club where you feel the love, a family where everyone is fighting for the same thing. I'm like that as a person.

You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Even when I lived in Chicago and I didn't have any family there, I would just go like I would be a guest and have dinner with a bunch of friends and do potluck or something. So I think that's it, just finding people that you love that love you and hang out with them.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.

Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.