Neighborhood Quotes
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?
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.
People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.
But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.
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.
A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.
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.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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 was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.
It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood
Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.
I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.
If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.
There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.