Neighborhood Quotes · Page 11

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

— Ayanna Pressley

If your child is starting a new school, walk around your block and get to know the neighborhood children.

— Chuck Norris

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

— Mike Tyson

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same…

— Bob Crane

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

— Jamila Woods

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

— John McCain

Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in…

— Cassandra Clare

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

— Dick Gregory

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known…

— Barbra Streisand

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I…

— Rebecca Stead

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some…

— Kevin Gates

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm…

— Richard Pryor

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the…

— Carrie Preston

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not…

— Confucius

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else…

— Paul van Dyk

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

— Rosalynn Carter

What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe…

— Neal Shusterman

By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one…

— Thucydides

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;…

— Margaret Atwood

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or…

— Elizabeth Lesser

It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes…

— Robert Hass

The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods…

— Eric Bolling

I live in New York and there are a lot of famous... pizzerias in my neighborhood, it's really hard to find one…

— Demetri Martin

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

— Luis Palau

I grew up exploring my neighborhood and beyond, and would love to give my daughter that kind of freedom.

— Stephanie Land

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

— Mark Duplass

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

The success of Boston's economy is intertwined with the health and well-being of every neighborhood.

— Michelle Wu

I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.

— Howie Long

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

— Timothy Keller

A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.

— David Berkowitz

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

— Rose Namajunas

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

— Matt Chandler

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

— Adrian Grenier

I'm a young George John, dem boxes to da ceilin', I'm ballin', I'm chillin' in da neighborhood dealin'.

— Gorilla Zoe

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.”

— Annie Dillard

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

— Beverly Cleary

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it…

— Langston Hughes