Neighborhood Quotes · Page 2

I grew up in the neighborhood where 'Rocky' came from.

— Black Thought

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

Love thy neighbor as yourself but choose your neighborhood.

— Louise Beal

“Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.”

— Jenny Trout

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

— Eddie Murphy

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

— Davey Havok

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

— Gordon Quinn

I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood

— William Arthur Dunkerley

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

— Mike Brown

“Sound body, serene mind, smiling face and sensible society is enough to live a satisfying social life.”

— Amit Kalantri

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

— Jane Byrne

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

— Johnny Ramone

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some…

— Hilda Solis

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their…

— Conan O'Brien

In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door.…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So…

— Michael Emerson

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if…

— Susan Faludi

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path.…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many…

— Michael Leiter

Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north…

— Ann Coulter

“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

I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the…

— Greg Mottola

I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a…

— David Duke

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and…

— Melina Marchetta

Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk…

— Troy Andrews

“You don't really mean that about having everyone leave you alone," she said sweetly. "You seem like such a friendly and outgoing…

— Liliana Hart

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.…

— Dennis Kucinich

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,…

— William Julius Wilson

Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it…

— Arundhati Roy

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

— Khaled Hosseini

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out…

— Dave Barry