Community Life Quotes

“The quilt was spread out, held by the women. They looked down at the cloth and then up at each other. The room grew quiet, breathlessly silent, so the boy could hear Kristina breathing as she slept upstairs, and he looked at the women's hands holding the edges of the quilt and none of them gripped hard but seemed instead to almost caress the cloth and he knew that he was seeing a sweet thing, a dear thing, like when his mother's face was there looking down on him as he awakened from a nap, or when his grandmother looked at him when she held him. Love. He did not know for sure exactly what love was but his mother had said she loved him, and loved his father. And his grandmother had said she loved him when she had that soft look, and he thought of it now. Love, they loved the cloth, no, loved the quilt, no, loved each other. They loved each other and the quilt and the cloth and it meant something he didn't understand.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Quilt

“The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, for from the time he kissed her hinder parts, he didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts, his malady was cured by his endeavor, and he defied all paramours whatever.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale

“The grounds at St. Andrew's were packed with limousines and hundreds of milling guests, dressed in the pastel shades of Easter. I looked absurdly out of place in my black blouse and skirt, but many of the guests were my former clients to whom my severity seemed perfectly natural. My impulse was to flee and head to a bar, the seedier the better, to wipe out this nauseating show of renewal and fine millinery. But before I could make my move, Kenneth, ever vigilant, spotted me through the crowd.”
― Sandi Tan, The Black Isle

“...a man is expected to emerge from the shadow of women and children and take an active part in the ritualized dramas of community life.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“Accessibility in housing communities is an essential duty, not a negotiable option, for the complete and equitable inclusion of persons with disabilities in all walks of community life.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing associations must view accessibility not as an optional feature, but as an essential obligation to ensure that persons with disabilities have equal opportunities in every aspect of life in the community.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing owners' associations need to ensure that persons with disabilities can join in all social and cultural events in the community, just like everyone else by facilitating accessibility.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing owner associations must shed their deep-seated biases and focus their efforts on creating an accessible community where persons with disabilities can participate fully and equally.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“For a truly inclusive community, housing owner associations must confront and set aside their deep-rooted discriminatory views, focusing instead on enabling complete and equal participation for persons with disabilities in every facet of community life.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“... "In Grandfather's day," said Henry Curry, a gentle and elegant man in his nineties, the patriarch of the black community and a church deacon, "they didn't have the education, but here what 'tis: If you had any trouble your trouble is my trouble ...”
― Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock

“...the traits that distinguish the swaggering delinquent and the punctilious gentleman of leisure from the common crowd are, in some measure, marks of an arrested spiritual development. They mark an immature phase, as compared with the stage of development attained by the average adults in the modern industrial community.”
― Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption