Neighborhood Quotes

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

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

I like you just the way you are.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

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

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

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

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

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

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

When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

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

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Some of the worst neighborhoods are so physically isolated, and more than anything, they're spiritually isolated. They're so close and yet so far. A lot of Chicagoans might not spend any time there, and what contact they do have is through what they see in the news, which is a little unsettling.

When the movie get out and people see it. It's not just our neighborhoods that's going through the gangs and going through all type of turmoil; it's other cities and other states and other towns.

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

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

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

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

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it takes place locally if the intention to make it universal is there. That's what I strive to do.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.