Neighborhood Quotes · Page 6

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

— Gordon Quinn

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

— Davey Havok

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

— Harvey Milk

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

— Rose Namajunas

If your child is starting a new school, walk around your block and get to know the neighborhood children.

— Chuck Norris

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

— Mike Tyson

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same…

— Bob Crane

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

— Jamila Woods

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

— John McCain

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

— Eve

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

— Oscar Hijuelos

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with…

— Robin Yount

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians.…

— John Petrucci

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what…

— Luis Guzman

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;…

— Al Pacino

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was…

— Vincent Kompany

You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star…

— Vanessa Ferlito

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide…

— Hakeem Jeffries

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be…

— David Byrne

I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except…

— Dorothy Day

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,…

— Lynda Barry

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others…

— Paul Engle

I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,…

— Ronald Reagan

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the…

— Alex Gibney

I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you…

— Sherman Alexie

It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that…

— Ann Goldstein

It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always…

— Questlove

After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like…

— Michelle Obama

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of…

— Julia Scheeres

“It was generally agreed that a coffin-size studio on Avenue D was preferable to living in one of the boroughs. Moving from…

— David Sedaris

In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed…

— John Ashcroft

Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of…

— Oren Moverman

the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a…

— Banksy

I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us…

— Condoleezza Rice

“Golosh Street is an interesting locality. All the oddities of trade seemed to have found their way thither and made an eccentric…

— Fitz James O'Brien

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

— Anonymous

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

— Steve Almond

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

— Edie Falco

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

— Robert Gossett