Community Connections Quotes

#1. I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don't want to taste him ever again.

Victoria Aveyard

#2. I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

Angela Carter

#3. The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.

Aldous Huxley

#4. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.

Neil Gaiman

#6. No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

Jon Taffer

#7. The more connections we acknowledge, the more we care. Most of us have a very diverse community of people and this is our strength.

Linda Savage

#8. A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Robert Reed

#9. We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

John Zerzan

#10. Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

Jayni Chase

#11. Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.

John Rogers

#12. We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

John Barton

#13. When we establish human connections within the context of shared
experience we create community wherever we go.

Gina Greenlee

#14. In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community ... That connection is a sense of life for me.

Edward Teller

#15. If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

Harry Connick Jr.

#16. If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

John Zerzan

#17. Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#18. Ela did you just fart? Because you just blew me away.

Mark A. Cooper

#19. But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering - but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.

Lemony Snicket

#20. Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

Maurice Flanagan

#21. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

#22. My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

David Batstone

#23. Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#24. There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.

Freeman Patterson

#25. The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

Craig Mello

#26. My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.

Shania Twain

#27. There are more copies than originals among people.

Pablo Picasso

#28. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...

Khaled Hosseini

#29. It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas ... And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Terence McKenna