Neighborhood Quotes · Page 14

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

— Dennis Miller

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

— Seth Godin

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

— Jessie Vargas

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

— Melissa McCarthy

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in…

— Frank Shorter

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

— Barack Obama

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

— Bill Cosby

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both…

— Cheech Marin

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods.…

— Marcia Gay Harden

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and…

— Joel Kinnaman

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to…

— Ani DiFranco

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own…

— Lucy R. Lippard

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations…

— John Sergeant Wise

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based…

— James Q. Wilson

I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I…

— Nilo Cruz

Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little…

— Charles Landry

Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end…

— Rachel Maddow

Some of the worst neighborhoods are so physically isolated, and more than anything, they're spiritually isolated. They're so close and yet so…

— Alex Kotlowitz

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar…

— Seth Shostak

So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial…

— Michael Emerson

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit…

— Epictetus

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

— Thom Yorke

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

— Robert Frost

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid…

— Michael De Luca

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

— Walt Disney

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

— Bob Cousy

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

— Ann Richards

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

— Aja Naomi King

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

— Phil Zimmermann

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...

— Anonymous

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

— Sam Shepard

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

— Greg Gutfeld

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

— Charlaine Harris

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

— Elijah Cummings

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

— Maya Angelou