Best Neighborhood Proverbs

606 Neighborhood quotes by 504 unique authors

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… — James Q. Wilson
There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand… — Henry David Thoreau
A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. — Carroll Quigley
Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras… — Candace Bushnell
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not… — Henry Cisneros
Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent. — Jerry Lawler
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs… — Karl Liebknecht
I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I… — David Duke
New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City,… — David Duke
I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon? — Rocky Graziano
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which… — Charles Bukowski
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. — Gene Simmons
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances… — Howard Stern
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home. — Langston Hughes
A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,… — Malcolm X
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin… — Jimmy Breslin
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself. — James Pike
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops. — Ed Begley, Jr.
Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. — Kent McCord
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving… — Gavin Newsom
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. — Gavin Newsom
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go… — Jean Pigozzi
I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able… — Giuliana Rancic

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