Neighborhood Quotes · Page 10

It's a small hood, but it's all good and Mr. Rogers ain't got shit up on my neighborhood.

— Master P

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

— Walter Brueggemann

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

— Bruce Davison

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

— Karl Hess

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

— Michael Giacchino

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

— London Breed

“Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all…

— Matthew Desmond

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our…

— Clarence Thomas

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

All those who came out of my neighborhood before me. Beyond those you see on TV, the most important people are those…

— Young Thug

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

— Marlee Matlin

I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that…

— Paul Wall

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from…

— Alan Autry

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information…

— Clifford Stoll

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive…

— Robert Higgs

It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You…

— Will Smith

The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows…

— Elizabeth Berg

Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree…

— Adam DeVine

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents…

— Sonia Sotomayor

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

— George Pataki

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

— Bessie Smith

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Rakim

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

— Mark Noble

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

— Johnny Ramone

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

— Frankie Valli

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

— Konrad Adenauer

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

— Buffalo Bill

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

— Danzy Senna

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

— Jane Byrne

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

— Bill Schuette

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

— Mike Brown

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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