Neighborhood Quotes · Page 13

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

— Paul Engle

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

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Melissa McCarthy

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

— Frank Shorter

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

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown.…

— Rick Santorum

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

People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by…

— Daniel Handler

I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood…

— Justin Theroux

Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need…

— Wolfgang Schauble

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

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered…

— Patricia Hill Collins

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

“Now that Brooklyn is the hip spot, here they come - to a neighborhood that was merely another place to avoid after…

— J Zone

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

— Dave Ramsey

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

— Barack Obama

Brownsville breeds the best fighters in the world. What other neighborhood has produced so many champions?

— Shannon Briggs

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

— Augusten Burroughs

I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

— Alan Cranston

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

— Kym Whitley

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

— Beverly Cleary

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

— Mauricio Cienfuegos

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

— Curtis Jackson

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

— Hunter S. Thompson

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

— William Castle

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

— Gene Simmons

Forget the block, when you're sixty, you've been around the entire neighborhood a few times.

— Dane Peddigrew

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

— Esperanza Spalding

A quick 3-mile run around my neighborhood is what I find maximizes my quick workouts and gives me energy to get through…

— Christina Anstead

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

— Rachel Caine