Neighborhood Quotes · Page 9

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

— Rakim

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

— Sarah Schulman

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

— Mike Judge

“Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and write Take them out of the darkness, Into the light”

— Charmaine J Forde

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

— James Gunn

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

— Jerry Lawler

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

— Kool G Rap

Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of…

— Franny Armstrong

These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small…

— Caroline Dhavernas

Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he…

— John Dewey

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic…

— Joel Kinnaman

Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp…

— Nate Berkus

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

— Jennifer Granholm

I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than…

— Curtis Mayfield

In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income -…

— Bryant Terry

When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a…

— Paul Reubens

A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the…

— Charles Duhigg

You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the…

— Kate Bornstein

Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got…

— Ted Nugent

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways…

— Charles Burnett

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too…

— Thomas Jefferson

All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a…

— Robert H. Frank

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery…

— Bo Jackson

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

— Chris Farley

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

— Bill Dedman

Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.

— Baron Davis

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

— Ruben Blades

My neighborhood is so bad. This is how we have to order at the drive-thru if we wanna stay alive...

— Ralphie May

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.

— Josh Pais

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

— Zach Galifianakis

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood

— William Arthur Dunkerley

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

— Victoria Justice

I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns