I feel like I made it already, because I got already what…

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn't matter where you're from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to…

— Raekwon

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part…

— Alicia Keys

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

— Scarface

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything.…

— Dave Ramsey

Frattamaggiore, the neighborhood where I grew up, was very difficult.

— Lorenzo Insigne

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

— Jennifer Weiner

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some…

— John Petrucci

Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want…

— Sonja Sohn

“Perfection may not be possible, but striving for excellence is.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

— Thomas Keller

“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that…

— V.C. Andrews

“Always remember that striving and struggling precede success, even in the dictionary.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

“When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.”

— Alan Cohen