Neighborhood Quotes · Page 9

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

— Annie Dillard

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,

— Newt Gingrich

I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.

— Sho Baraka

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,

— Majora Carter

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

— Pico Iyer

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

— Don Rickles

“Stanley Silverman - A man who lives across from Mrs. Nelson who keeps a watchful eye on the happenings in his neighborhood”

— Steve Demaree

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

— Lil Baby

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.…

— Shane Claiborne

About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator.…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put…

— Ice Cube

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

— Charles Olson

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran…

— Norman Rockwell

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do,…

— Delta Burke

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

— Louise Lester

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't…

— Sherman Hemsley

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

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires…

— Lisa Morton

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

— Ari Shapiro

You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that…

— Benjamin Carson

There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently…

— Elliott Colla

I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and…

— Edward Hirsch

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally…

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Sarah Palin

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them…

— Jon Voight

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

— Mike Wallace

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

— Murray Kempton

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.

— Jay-Z

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

— John Isner

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

— Ed Begley, Jr

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.

— Steven Wright

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

— Ronnie Moran

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own…

— Dorothy Day

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

— Jane Byrne

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

— Ayanna Pressley

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

— Robert Gossett

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 grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

— Edie Falco