Neighborhood Quotes · Page 4

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

— Patty Smyth

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

— Ayanna Pressley

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

— Thomas Friedman

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

— Anne Lamott

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

— Raymond Chandler

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

— Alicia Keys

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

— Antonio Gates

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

— Kyle Lowry

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

— Benicio Del Toro

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

— Erma Bombeck

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

— Fred Rogers

Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

— Harold Rosenberg

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it…

— Joe Biden

Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in…

— Cassandra Clare

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

— Dick Gregory

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

— Luis Palau

I was raised in Mimico, a small neighborhood just outside of Toronto, Canada. One of the most culturally diverse cities in the…

— Joey Votto

Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this…

— Triple H

The street I lived on for the first handful of years of my life was lined with modest, lower-middle-class houses with small…

— Chris Gethard

If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can…

— George Sweeting

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at…

— Cassandra Clare

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street…

— Buzz Aldrin

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it…

— Dalai Lama

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

— Wiz Khalifa

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

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have…

— Ryan Coogler

“To you, the beautiful human in you, who, like everybody else on this planet, is on an everyday struggle to love and…

— Merlin Franco

Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need,…

— George W. Bush

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…

— Bharati Mukherjee

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in…

— Andrew Greeley

Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk…

— Troy Andrews

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

— Walker Percy

I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable.…

— Vince Vaughn

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just…

— Sharon Zukin

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over…

— Kevin Carson

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him…

— Rajneesh