Community Quotes

"When I talk about success I don't mean music business, I just mean the people around me."

"The foundation of a nation is self-aid, mutual aid and public aid."

"Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story."

"No one person is an island."

"I like doing business in a black city."

"When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water."

"I wanted to create a movement and a safe space for people to come and find their 'cancer home.'"

"I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community."

"I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community."

"Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them."

"I still love gaming and the gaming community."

"I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with."

"It's really important that we look after our libraries."

"When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community."

"Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level."

"Parties are fun, but they don't create community."

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

Jane Jacobs

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking."

Rollo May

"Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better."

Studs Terkel

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

Coretta Scott King

"In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence."

Jamsetji Tata

"Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person."

Fred Rogers