Neighborhood Quotes · Page 12

Brownsville breeds the best fighters in the world. What other neighborhood has produced so many champions?

— Shannon Briggs

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

— Maya Angelou

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns

When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

— Dane Cook

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

— Gene Weingarten

The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.

— Aretha Franklin

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

— Wilma Rudolph

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

— Christopher Columbus

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place…

— Demetri Martin

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city…

— Sandra Cisneros

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -…

— Douglas Coupland

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it…

— Dr. Dre

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the…

— Stevie Wonder

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when…

— Vanessa Ferlito

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that…

— Keke Palmer

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but…

— Henry Ward Beecher

My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through…

— Frankie Cosmos

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people…

— Theaster Gates

I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,…

— Shelby Steele

If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,…

— James Lileks

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait…

— Alex Steffen

What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so…

— Walker Percy

It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse,…

— Samuel Morse

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

— Steven Spielberg

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

— Anonymous

“One individual in one neighborhood, that's enough to change the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

— Rodney Dangerfield

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

— Alan Keyes

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

— Young Thug

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

— London Breed

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

— Bob Saget

It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.

— James Pike

Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like…

— Carol Leifer

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers…

— Tim Robbins

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

— Jane Byrne

Georgia and Ukraine are not just states in Russia's neighborhood; they are on its doorstep.

— John Mearsheimer

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

— Romeo Santos

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

— Sylvester Stallone