Andris Nelsons Quotes

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

I feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

The community … is the world in miniature. If we encourage children to observe directly the complex relations between the people and the land, between nature and society, they will grasp the reality of their homes, their school, the town, village or city, and will be able to understand the wider world.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

The public is a part of my real life.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

This [Washington DC] is the people's city, and the people of South Carolina have almost as much vested here as the people who live here.

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.

I'm big on my community and want to stay that way.

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.

Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it small and local, and usually they think if they just make great coffee, it's the best thing for the neighborhood.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.