Natalie Merchant Quotes

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

I like being a Girl Scout.

I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

I was a Girl Scout!

'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

I was a Brownie Scout mother.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

I have always been involved in some philanthropic work - growing up in the church, you always had to have a reasonable portion of service to the community and to people who have less, who need a helping hand. It's just something in my heart that I know needs to be done.

I think it's important for service to be a part of your life instead of an option. It's awesome to make it a point to do something that's gonna make the world slightly better than you left it.

I'm here to save someone. I really want to help other people, especially the youth.

Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.

I'm always entrenched in the community. I'm always working with the high schoolers, no matter what school they're at. I'm always in my community.