Neighborhood Quotes · Page 6

Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

— Jerry Lawler

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

— Mike Judge

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

— Sarah Schulman

“Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and write Take them out of the darkness, Into the light”

— Charmaine J Forde

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

— Robert Gossett

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

— Ayanna Pressley

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

— Zoe Kravitz

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 am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years…

— Stan Lee

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made…

— Ving Rhames

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

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the…

— Jane Byrne

When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood…

— Sherry Turkle

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our…

— Chris Rose

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the…

— Sarah Palin

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than…

— Van Jones

Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the…

— Tim Kaine

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my…

— Shailene Woodley

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit…

— Epictetus

Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity,…

— Vanna Bonta

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar…

— Seth Shostak

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve…

— Parker J. Palmer

Build. Transform. Love. These are words I use all the time as we speak about community building and even real estate development…

— Majora Carter

The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party…

— Mark Steyn

I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us…

— Condoleezza Rice

In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed…

— John Ashcroft

the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a…

— Banksy

Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of…

— Oren Moverman

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

— Eve

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

— Oscar Hijuelos

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

— Anonymous

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

— Steve Almond

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same…

— Bob Crane

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

— Jamila Woods

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

— John McCain

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

— Mike Tyson

If your child is starting a new school, walk around your block and get to know the neighborhood children.

— Chuck Norris