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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.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire...

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

The audience loves when the comedian talks to them. You're creating inside jokes, which creates a community.

Quotes by Wendy Liebman

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Quotes by Wentworth Miller

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Quotes by Wendell Pierce

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Quotes by Washington Irving

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into...

Quotes by Warren Rudman

My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to...

Quotes by Walter Gropius

Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.

Quotes by Walter Gropius

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

Quotes by Walter Jon Williams

Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

Quotes by Wallace Shawn

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things...

Quotes by Virginia Gildersleeve

While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

Quotes by Vir Das

Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

Quotes by Vint Cerf

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

Quotes by Vincent Rodriguez III

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building...

Quotes by Vincent Nichols

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic...

Quotes by Vincent Nichols

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local...

Quotes by Vincent Nichols

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Quotes by Vincent Frank

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of 'community' appear in these quotes?
They range from a geopolitical view about European Union expansion and stability, to discovering acting through community theater, to a racial community's sense of identity and security, to the inside jokes a comedian builds with an audience.
Is there a quote about the European Union and Russia?
Yes. One quote states a view that "The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia" - adding that there's "no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same" community. This is presented here simply as the quote's own stated view on EU-Russia relations.
Is there a quote about discovering acting through community theater?
Yes - one speaker recalls trying bull-riding without much success before they "discovered acting through community theater." For more, see Community-Based quotes.
Is there a quote about what a racial community provides?
Yes. One quote says a racial community provides "not only a sense of identity" and the "luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support." For more, see Communities quotes.
Is there a quote about comedians building community with an audience?
Yes - one quote says that when a comedian talks to the audience and builds "inside jokes," it "creates a community." For more, see Community College quotes and Community Service quotes.

One quote takes a wider geopolitical view, tying regional stability to a larger shared community of nations. Browse more in Community Service Quotes or Community College Quotes.