Neighborhood Quotes · Page 7

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

— Herman Fetzer

Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

— Herman Van Rompuy

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

— Dante Basco

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

— Dan Quayle

If I do go broke, it's going to be from providing for my neighborhood and my family.

— JaMarcus Russell

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

— Thomas J. Stanley

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

— Bruno Sammartino

I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I…

— John Darnielle

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were…

— Darren Robinson

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood…

— Edgar Mitchell

“I dream of transforming my neighborhood into a garden, where flowers blossom not only in the soil but in the hearts of…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense:…

— Jean Baudrillard

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood.…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

— Michael Capuano

There are people in communities who are actually out there fighting poverty eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul, in neighborhoods that actually do well, that succeed.…

— Paul Ryan

I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and…

— Marvin J. Ashton

I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read…

— Trina Robbins

A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more…

— Robert H. Frank

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by…

— Patty Murray

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could…

— Grace Paley

The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese.…

— Malcolm X

Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your…

— Dennis Crowley

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.…

— Toni Morrison

And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and…

— Ronald Reagan

“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.…

— Roberto Bolaño

The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him…

— Rajneesh

I think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only…

— Susan Lyne

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so…

— Walker Percy

I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable.…

— Vince Vaughn

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

— Jessie Vargas

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

— Seth Godin

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

— Dennis Miller

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

— Paul Engle

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

— Anonymous

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

— Alan Autry

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

— Frank Sinatra

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

— Christopher Bollen