Carla Hayden Quotes

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

In retirement there are no ranks...we are all ‘have-beens’ together:

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

I like the Bay Area because it's very diverse, and I'm in touch with the people.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

People are tweeting, texting, and e-mailing - and not connecting. There are very few ways for communities to come together. It happens at concerts and at sporting events.

I'm very connected to my neighbourhood. If I could, I'd take the entire Peri Garden neighbourhood to form a Jardim Peri in Manchester.

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

I could live in a community like 'Fortitude.'

The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

There is a community out there ready to grow with you. Find them.

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.