Neighborhood Quotes · Page 9

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

— Maya Angelou

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

— Ann Richards

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

— Bob Cousy

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

— Aja Naomi King

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...

— Anonymous

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

— Phil Zimmermann

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

— David Berg

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land…

— Mark Noble

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always…

— Sylvia Earle

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes…

— Will Smith

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator…

— Derwin L. Gray

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all…

— Ben Silbermann

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some…

— Jessamyn West

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones…

— Jennifer Weiner

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them…

— Fran Drescher

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and…

— Wendell Berry

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours…

— Maurice Sendak

My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really…

— George Pelecanos

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development…

— Allan Fromme

When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We do things tastefully but we do a lot. My mom has a lot of traditional Christmas things she likes us to…

— Kristin Davis

As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like…

— Christian Picciolini

Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property…

— Terry Pratchett

London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London…

— JJ Feild

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

— Anthony Rendon

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a…

— David Mamet

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to…

— Dolores Huerta

“Wherever I go - in every neighborhood - I find younger versions of myself disappearing around corners.”

— Dani Shaprio

“Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.”

— Magda M. Olchawska

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

— Anthony Weiner

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

— Ed Koch

Let's also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods.

— Hillary Clinton

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I grew up in the neighborhood where Eric Garner died. No one knows that about me.

— Dan Donovan

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

— O. J. Mayo

I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

— George Pelecanos

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

— Debbie Reynolds

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

— Fred Rogers

I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.

— Scarface