Neighborhood Quotes · Page 13

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

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

— Shannon Briggs

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

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

— Herman Van Rompuy

The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to…

— Richard Rodriguez

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of…

— William Blackstone

Bostonians want our city to be more than an economic engine. We want to be a city where growth brings opportunity, community,…

— Marty Walsh

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally.…

— Harry Nilsson

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't…

— Andrew Vachss

Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like…

— Gloria Steinem

“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in…

— Stephen King

The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where…

— Carrot Top

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it…

— Raekwon

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power…

— Charles Bukowski

Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on…

— Alex Steffen

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with…

— Zadie Smith

A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the…

— Stanley Greenspan

The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images,…

— Harry Lennix

I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break…

— Frank Sinatra

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

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

— Herman Fetzer

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

— Anonymous

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

— Paul Engle

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

— Ray Parker, Jr

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

— Anonymous

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

— Alan Autry

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

— Frank Sinatra

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

— Christopher Bollen

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

— Fred Rogers

If I do go broke, it's going to be from providing for my neighborhood and my family.

— JaMarcus Russell

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

— Thomas J. Stanley

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

— Bruno Sammartino

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

— Dante Basco

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

— Dan Quayle