"I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too."

-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Community Quotes

“The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.”
“My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.”
“The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]”

Source : Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House
“The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.”
“Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.”

Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
“Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.”
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, It moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immotality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artists way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”
“You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.”

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