Neighborhood Quotes

“Do not harm your neighbour, who live trustfully near you.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

— Chris Weidman

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

— Steven Seagal

Cruisin through my neighborhood on a warm summer night.

— Lil Rob

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

— Betsy Hodges

I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'

— Telly Savalas

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

— DeAndre Jordan

It's all good in the neighborhood homes.

— Lil Rob

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

— London Breed

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

— Bruce Davison

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven…

— Jim Gaffigan

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

— Michael Giacchino

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

It's a small hood, but it's all good and Mr. Rogers ain't got shit up on my neighborhood.

— Master P

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is…

— Jasmine Guy

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood.…

— Nikki Giovanni

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to…

— Ricky Martin

Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire…

— Bob Beauprez

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing…

— Giuliana Rancic

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they…

— Andy Rooney

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling…

— Thomas Sowell

It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think…

— Randall Wright

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family,…

— Roxane Gay

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's…

— Paul Rust

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,…

— Bill Moyers

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my…

— Hedi Slimane

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew…

— Soledad O'Brien

I live in a neighborhood where you can't walk around the block without running away or getting shot...you can't wear red or…

— Anonymous

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.…

— Robin Wasserman

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

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

— Vlatko Stefanovski

When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing…

— Robert Fulghum

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

— Susan Lyne

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

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

— JJ Feild

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

— Sharon Zukin

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

— Vince Vaughn