The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had… — Josh Pais Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I live in a neighborhood where you can't walk around the block without running away or getting shot...you can't wear red or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
“In this day . . . community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.” — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should… — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Portland is a place where everyone closes their eyes and crosses their fingers and hopes for a better community. They keep it… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day.… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons.… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital… — Bruce Karatz Copy Share Image
We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace,… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
Well, it's like, the neighborhood I grew up in is very multicultural. It goes from Chinese to white to black to Jamaican,… — Nav Copy Share Image
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
