What may be wealth to an individual may not be wealth to a community.
—Henry George
How can you say you have fulfilled the law and prophets, when it is written in the law that you should love your neighbor as yourself? Look, many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are covered with filth and dying of hunger. Meanwhile your own house is filled with goods, and not a thing goes out of it to them.
—Origen
People had changed—or rather fridges had changed them. Mrs. Munde felt that being able to store food for longer periods had broken down the community spirit. There was no need to share now, no need to meet every day, gathering your veg or killing a few rabbits.
—Jeanette Winterson
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
—Bill Bryson
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.
—Paulette Bates Alden
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
—Jessamyn West
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
—Willa Cather
Your next-door neighbor… is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
—G. K. Chesterton
Man made the city, God made the country, but the devil made the small town.
—The Reverend Vernon G. McGee
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Art is spirituality in drag.
—Jennifer Yane
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
—Willa Cather
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
—Mignon McLaughlin
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
—Garth Henrichs
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.
—Chinese saying