Neighborhood Quotes
When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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.
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.
I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.
You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.
I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.
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.
We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.
Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.
My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.
I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
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.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better 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.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
