Neighborhood Quotes - Page 3

• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society,
  each of us needs to understand himself and understand others,
  take care of others and be taken care of himself.

  Haniel Long

  Taken, Kwanzaa, Community

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

  Chaim Potok

  Family, Growing Up, Reading

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• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Leader, Parent

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• Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

  Phil Donahue

  Success, Cat, Animal

  Phil Donahue (1986). “The Human Animal”, Touchstone

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

  Buffalo Bill

  Brother, Casts, Whole

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.20, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Kids, White

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• 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?

  Jessamyn West

  Success, Men, Soul

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  Dan Quayle

  Jobs, Opportunity, America

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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  Gary Oldman

  Growing Up, Anger, Fire

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• The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Cities, Important

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).' I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting. This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros's compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.

  Adrian Matejka

  Art, Spring, Style

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• For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.

  Barack Obama

  College, People, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Giving

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage

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• Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Radio, Misery

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.173, University of Missouri Press

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• I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.

  Mauricio Cienfuegos

  Latin, America, Leaving

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• When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Military, Real, Home

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• What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.

  Chris Milk

  Fashion, Technology, Data

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Philosophy, Greatness, America

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  Art Garfunkel

  Greatness, Men, Vision

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• For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

  Delta Burke

  Inspirational, Dance, Exercise

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• I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.

  George Clarke

  Mom, Brother, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Islands, Age, Daylight

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• Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

  Alex Steffen

  Moving, Cities, Feet

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• 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.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Tough, Kind

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