Best Neighborhood Words
606 Neighborhood quotes by 504 unique authors
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Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should…
— Diane Ravitch
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I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine…
— James Q. Wilson
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As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is…
— Scott Harshbarger
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
— Sharon M. Draper
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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
— Wilma Rudolph
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Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
— Jane Byrne
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As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment…
— D. James Kennedy
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It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.
— Thomas J. Stanley
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It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.
— Bill Schuette
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Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
— Bill Lipinski
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I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading “What…
— Nancy Milford
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in…
— Fred Thompson
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A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.
— David Berkowitz
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
— Murray Kempton
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Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
— Walter Brueggemann
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Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea…
— Parker J. Palmer
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it…
— Walker Percy
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and…
— Walker Percy
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I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,…
— Pico Iyer
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You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
— Frankie Valli
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That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to…
— Darren Hayes
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
— John Ciardi
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The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,
— Phil Zimmermann
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Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged…
— Marcia Gay Harden
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On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
— George Pataki
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