Community Need Quotes

There are higher things than mere professional success as a lawyer, and one of them is usefulness in a situation like that of New York, the great National problem of America.

The gay scene here has become so visible partly out of need. The community here can be so oppressive it almost creates the need for a thriving gay and lesbian community.

I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by becoming necessary.

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

There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.

I haven't necessarily joined politics to become a leader but because it was the need of the time.

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.

Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

I come from a town of 3 thousand people. If I didn't go someone else would have to go in my place.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

I had my children, fell in love with mothering, yet couldn't find what I was looking for in terms of support or community. It felt isolating. I couldn't find 'my people.'

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

I have had a variety of ideas, and I have thought about opening a dance studio. I am very passionate about dance. There are not many dance studios where I live.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.

People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives.