Neighborhood Quotes · Page 15

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

— Mike Judge

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

— James Gunn

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

— Jerry Lawler

Frattamaggiore, the neighborhood where I grew up, was very difficult.

— Lorenzo Insigne

I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.

— Gabriel Iglesias

When you come to Memphis you get the family vibe. All of my partners, friends, they're from my neighborhood.

— Young Dolph

“I want a house that costs somewhere in the neighborhood of any other neighborhood but the one I’m currently living in.”

— Jarod Kintz

Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always…

— Robert Fulghum

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries -…

— Philipp Meyer

As of late, 'Boyz n the Hood' really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first…

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It…

— Anonymous

What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own…

— Barbara Mikulski

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the…

— Derwin L. Gray

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys…

— Sxip Shirey

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue… Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,…

— Ellen Willis

I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end…

— LaMarcus Aldridge

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You…

— Art Garfunkel

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part…

— Barry Levinson

Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my…

— Derrick Rose

If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood.…

— Malcolm X

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come…

— Rafe Esquith

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap…

— Nayvadius Cash

Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.

— George Carlin

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

— Robert Lansing

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

— Roger Wicker

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

— George Jones

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

— Chris Rock

Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.

— Pamela Druckerman

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

— Truman Capote

Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your…

— Eric Drooker

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

— Sharon M. Draper

Well, it's like, the neighborhood I grew up in is very multicultural. It goes from Chinese to white to black to Jamaican,…

— Nav

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models…

— Marla Gibbs

I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a…

— Jane Byrne

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of…

— Gary Snyder

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery,…

— Berenice Abbott

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I…

— Iman Abdulmajid

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that…

— Kirby Wright