Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Cicero

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
Lady Bird Johnson

It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.
Zach Braff

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Alice Waters

This world of ours ... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psalm 133:1 (KJV)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."
Jimmy Carter

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