Neighborhood Quotes · Page 7

I'm very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.

— Ayanna Pressley

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

— Patricia Heaton

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

— Jane Byrne

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own…

— Dorothy Day

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

— Ronnie Moran

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

— Billy Wilder

I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.

— Steven Wright

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

— Ed Begley, Jr

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the…

— Snoop Dogg

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I…

— Melissa Ordway

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and…

— Jon Stewart

The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to…

— Richard Rodriguez

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of…

— William Blackstone

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all…

— David Byrne

Our libraries are pillars in the neighborhood - providing vital services, safe spaces to gather, and connections to essential resources.

— Cori Bush

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

— Frank Marshall Davis

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high,…

— Cathy O'Neil

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about…

— Richard Rodriguez

I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run…

— Nathan Fillion

We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I…

— Shane Claiborne

I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom…

— Trevor Noah

We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the…

— Rodney Dangerfield

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would…

— Les Wexner

I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor…

— Nicolas Cotugno

“Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one…

— Daniel Amory

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the…

— J. G. Holland

You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of…

— Betty Smith

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of…

— Wendell Berry

When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much…

— Jonas Carpignano

It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try…

— Eric Holder

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

— Fred Rogers

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

— John Isner

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

— Marcia Gay Harden

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

— Murray Kempton

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.

— Jay-Z

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

— Mike Wallace

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

— Lil Baby