Neighborhood famous quotes

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.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Education #Joy #Neighborhood

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

#New York #Soho #Neighborhood

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

#Mind #Trying #Neighborhood

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

#United States #Would Be #Neighborhood

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Mind #Neighborhood

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

#Basketball #Queens #Neighborhood

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?
-- Bucky Sinister

#San Francisco #Maps #Neighborhood

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

#Brother #Neighborhood #Casts

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

#Might #Eric Northman #Neighborhood

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.
-- Davey Havok

#Nice #Freak #Neighborhood

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

#Society #Cleaning #Neighborhood

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

#Guy #Neighborhood

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

#Economic #Neighborhood #Wells

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
-- George Pataki

#New Day #Terrible #Neighborhood

I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
-- George Pelecanos

#Blue #Care #Neighborhood

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.
-- Greg Gutfeld

#Citizens #Should #Neighborhood

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
-- Harvey Milk

#Dream #American Dream #Neighborhood

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

#Cities #Chicago #Neighborhood

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

#Common #Silent #Neighborhood

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

#Neighborhood

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
-- John Powell

#Poverty #Seven #Neighborhood

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

#Bully #Way #Neighborhood

Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.
-- Jordan Peele

#Kind #Neighborhood

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.
-- Judah Friedlander

#Fancy #Neighborhood

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

#People #Neighborhood

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.
-- Kent McCord

#Tough #Grew Up #Neighborhood

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.
-- Kitty Kelley

#Clinton #Restaurants #Neighborhood

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,
-- Majora Carter

#Neighborhood

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

#Beats #Neighborhood

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

#Song #Children #Neighborhood

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.
-- Paul Popenoe

#Pascal #Neighborhood

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

#Internet #Crime #Neighborhood

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.
-- Rick Scott

#People #Want #Neighborhood

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

#Neighborhood #Thirteen

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

#Morning #Neighborhood #Toasts

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.
-- Susan Faludi

#Movement #Wonder #Neighborhood

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

#Pride #Reputation #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.
-- Thomas Binney

#Spring #Errors #Neighborhood

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
-- Thomas Friedman

#Life #Success #Neighborhood

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

#Wealth #Easier #Neighborhood

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

#House #Neighborhood

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

#Exercise #Riding #Neighborhood

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 the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
-- Walker Percy

#Emptiness #Neighborhood #Shows

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

#Halloween #Scared #Neighborhood

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

#Scarcity #Anxious #Neighborhood

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

#Flow #Where You Live #Neighborhood

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

#Grew #Grew Up #Neighborhood

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.
-- Alex Kotlowitz

#Worst #Neighborhood

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.
-- Antonio Gates

#Tough #Neighborhood

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.
-- Chantal Akerman

#Neighborhood

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.
-- Eric Drooker

#Artist #Chinese #Neighborhood

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

#Neighborhood #Plague

As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old neighborhood in the center of city, and people would begin to point at you. People would begin to talk about you, spreading the word about the outsider who has wandered into their midst, look at him, he's got a camera, what's he doing, is this allowed, is this OK, how should be respond to him.
-- Howard W. French

#People #Outsiders #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.
-- Jaume Cabre

#Intention #Strive #Neighborhood

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
-- Thomas P.M. Barnett

#Police #Actors #Neighborhood

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.
-- Tommy the Clown

#People #Gang #Neighborhood

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
-- Bill Dedman

#Long #Chicago #Neighborhood

I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.
-- Sho Baraka

#Neighborhood #Wanted #Diverse

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

#Today #Neighborhood #Suburbs