Neighborhood Quotes

Neighborhood Quote of the day

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

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

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

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

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.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

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

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.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

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

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

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

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

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

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this is a nice neighborhood!

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

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

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

All those who came out of my neighborhood before me. Beyond those you see on TV, the most important people are those who are close to you because they share the same reality.

Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

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?

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.