Community Ties Quotes

I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

The best part of my career has been the relationships with the fans and the kids.

Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

I am a typical Telugu boy dominated by all the qualities of a Hyderabadi because I was born and brought up here.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I'm not being solicitous. I'm being serious.

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.

It is better for Muslims not to settle in non-Muslim societies.

I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?