My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
I'm a young George John, dem boxes to da ceilin', I'm ballin', I'm chillin' in da neighborhood dealin'. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Don't forget to leave your handprints on the ones you love and your footprints around the neighborhood.” — Lisa C. Miller Copy Share Image
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music.… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“What does our neighborhood say about us? What is the value of a neighborhood? Mine is a mirror of my past choices.… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
“You are going to have to take the rest of these croissants to work with you, I cannot be trusted alone in… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
![“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the…” quote by Matt de la Pena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/matt-de-la-pena-15023_big-deal_the-second-book-which-was-probably-more_679824.jpg)
