Neighborhood Quotes · Page 14

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

— London Breed

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

— Rakim

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood

— William Arthur Dunkerley

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

— Victoria Justice

I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back…

— Sylvester Stallone

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly,…

— Chantal Akerman

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local…

— Celeste Ng

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children?…

— Rand Paul

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street…

— David Lee Roth

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living…

— Ben Affleck

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I…

— Richard Gere

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but…

— Fiona Apple

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All…

— Anne Sexton

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group…

— Michael W. Smith

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the…

— Hanna Rosin

When I was younger - in elementary school - my parents are both teachers, so we moved around a lot. For the…

— Sarah Jaffe

For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses,…

— Barack Obama

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of…

— Matthew McConaughey

I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very…

— Emily Rios

When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love on like the same day -…

— Dane Cook

It's a small hood, but it's all good and Mr. Rogers ain't got shit up on my neighborhood.

— Master P

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

— Kool G Rap

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

— Chris Farley

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery…

— Bo Jackson

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

— Bill Dedman

Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.

— Baron Davis

My neighborhood is so bad. This is how we have to order at the drive-thru if we wanna stay alive...

— Ralphie May

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

— Ruben Blades

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

— Josh Pais

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

— Zach Galifianakis

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

— Rakim

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and write Take them out of the darkness, Into the light”

— Charmaine J Forde

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

— Sarah Schulman