Neighborhood Quotes - Page 21

• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Moving, Color

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• We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

  Jerry Brown

  Equality, Creative, Community

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• But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

  Roger Wicker

  Friends, Egypt, People

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• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Night, Zucchini, Doors

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• I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

  Justin Townes Earle

  House, Parent, Feelings

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• Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

  Hesiod

  Trying, Literature, Mates

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• I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

  Dr. Dre

  Sports, Home, School

  "The Dr.'s always in" by Robert Hilburn, www.latimes.com. September 23, 2007.

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• To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, People, Understanding

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Baseball, Brother

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• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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• There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Mistake

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• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  Carroll Quigley

  Intimate Relationships, Community, Groups

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• Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Rain, Sky

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• Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

  Henry Cisneros

  People, Judging, Progress

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

  Jerry Lawler

  Common, Silent, Heard

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Military, Evil, Kegs

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• I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I don't see anything wrong with white kids wanting to go to school with white children, or black kids wanting to go to school with black kids.

  David Duke

  Children, School, Kids

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• New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.

  David Duke

  New York, Hard Work, Numbers

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• 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?

  Rocky Graziano

  Drinking, Moon, Night

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• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  War, Hands, Rottweilers

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• I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self Esteem, Luxury, Factories

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

  Malcolm X

  Sports, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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