Neighborhood Quotes · Page 15

It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes…

— Robert Hass

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

— Rodney Dangerfield

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent…

— David Dinkins

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

— Alicia Keys

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous…

— Mike Tyson

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

— Ruben Blades

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer…

— Dennis Cooper

You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are…

— Rula Jebreal

[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values…

— Ronald Reagan

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later…

— Rick Danko

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching…

— Sissela Bok

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

— Hedi Slimane

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it…

— Shia LaBeouf

People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the…

— Ari Shapiro

Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the…

— David Mitchell

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

— Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the…

— Dan Fogler

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can…

— Stone Gossard

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

— Melissa McCarthy

If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,…

— James Lileks

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood.

— Mark Noble

I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City'…

— Joe Mantello

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

— Dennis Miller