Neighborhood Quotes · Page 8

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

— Fred Rogers

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

— Ray Parker, Jr

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

— Anonymous

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

— Walt Disney

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

— Robert Frost

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid…

— Michael De Luca

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

— Barack Obama

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in…

— Frank Shorter

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to…

— Ayanna Pressley

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate…

— Jim Nollman

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able…

— Cleve Jones

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

— Gwen Ifill

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely…

— Nikola Tesla

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way…

— Gillian Jacobs

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's…

— Marian Wright Edelman

There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows.…

— Studs Terkel

The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets…

— Avro Manhattan

I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches,…

— Michael Emerson

I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the…

— Darren Aronofsky

Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary…

— Mike Wallace

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey,…

— Jonathan Banks

When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the…

— Michael K. Williams

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over…

— Kevin Carson

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just…

— Sharon Zukin

Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk…

— Troy Andrews

The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh…

— Matt de la Pena

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we…

— John Henrik Clarke

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean…

— Sharon Zukin

“You are going to have to take the rest of these croissants to work with you, I cannot be trusted alone in…

— Stacey Ballis

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's…

— Fred Rogers

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

— Melissa McCarthy

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

— Bill Cosby

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

— Thom Yorke

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

— Sam Shepard

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

— Greg Gutfeld

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

— Charlaine Harris

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

— Elijah Cummings