Neighborhood Quotes · Page 11

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

— Amit Kalantri

815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia.

— Deshaun Watson

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

— Malcolm X

I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.

— Michelle Wu

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

— Maya Angelou

Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

— Herman Van Rompuy

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

— Andre Balazs

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

— Paul Popenoe

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't…

— Robert Sietsema

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all…

— Anonymous

When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping…

— Richard Benjamin

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if…

— Kim Brooks

Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she…

— Gina Barreca

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells…

— Anne Lamott

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of…

— Thomas Menino

What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and…

— Ibrahim Hooper

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's…

— Mike Posner

Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich…

— Newt Gingrich

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere,…

— David Mamet

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

— Grace Paley

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything…

— Lori Lightfoot

People who are happy with their neighborhoods in New York always say the same thing: 'It's such a neighborhood!' And that's how…

— Chris Thile

When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and…

— Paula Fox

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

— Herman Fetzer

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

— Rachel Caine

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

— Wendell Berry

A quick 3-mile run around my neighborhood is what I find maximizes my quick workouts and gives me energy to get through…

— Christina Anstead

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

— Esperanza Spalding

Forget the block, when you're sixty, you've been around the entire neighborhood a few times.

— Dane Peddigrew

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

— Gene Simmons

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

— William Castle

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

— Hunter S. Thompson

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

— Curtis Jackson

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

— Beverly Cleary

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

— Mauricio Cienfuegos

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

— Kym Whitley

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

— Alan Cranston

I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

— Augusten Burroughs