- Nov 07, 2020
Community Quotes
Community is built, not just found.
These quotes cover community at different scales - a performer discovering their craft through local theater, the identity and security that comes from a shared racial or cultural community, and comedians building connection through shared inside jokes. Related reading in Communities Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to explain what community is to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to explain what an artichoke tastes like.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
- Community Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
- Family Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving back and serving the community. So when I became fortunate enough and blessed to play the game of basketball, I was also fortunate enough to follow in my parents' footsteps and give back like the way they did.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why I was lucky enough to have people in my community take me in. To be able to continue school. Or why I was lucky enough to find work or go to college. I do know that kind of luck is one in a million.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there and auditioned just like everybody else. They hired me for 'Hairspray' to help sell tickets for a few weeks, but I ended up being there much longer than originally planned and started to carve a niche for myself.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020