Neighborhood Quotes · Page 35

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

— Thom Yorke

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!

— Meagan Good

Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't…

— Jaume Cabre

Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be…

— George Weigel

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have…

— Wendell Berry

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and…

— Thomas Sowell

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of…

— Jami Attenberg

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression.…

— Sylvester Stallone

A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.

— David Berkowitz

I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you…

— Sherman Alexie

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around…

— George Carlin

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in…

— Denis Leary

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

— Hesiod

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops,…

— Ben Folds

The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard…

— Jess Walter

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

— Ed Koch

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group…

— Michael W. Smith

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…

— Bharati Mukherjee

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

— Rakim

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire…

— Howard Stern

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I…

— Grace Paley

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

— Jamila Woods

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

— Chris Farley