One thing I had on my side when it came to How to Make It in America is that I'm a born-and-raised… — Victor Rasuk Copy Share Image
My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was… — Richard Chizmar Copy Share Image
Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first… — Mike Ertel Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as… — Nujood Ali Copy Share Image
When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
You aren't worried are you?" "Why should I be worried? It's just another day in the neighborhood. You know - bombs, fires,… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Most of the time, people are not actually concerned with prostitution and sex work. They're concerned about seeing people who they think… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
![“[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must it seek, as it did in the recent past, to suppress or replace them. That only robbed us of our tiller and set us adrift…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/72b/ronald-reagan-119_adrift_our-goal-is-to-help-revive-america-s-tra_1014470.jpg)
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