I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally...… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey,… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when… — Vanessa Ferlito Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
![“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments…” quote by Troy Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/84c/troy-andrews-56231_born_as-soon-as-i-was-born-my-mom-said-i-was_2182733.jpg)
