Neighborhood Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Conan O'Brien

  Museums, African American, Location

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• I like you just the way you are.

  Fred Rogers

  I Like You, Way, Manageable

  Senate Statement on PBS Funding, delivered 1 May 1969

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• All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.

  Robert H. Frank

  Children, Reading, School

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.

  Eric Holder

  Home, Self, Law

  "Holder speaks out against 'Stand Your Ground' laws after Zimmerman verdict" by Pete Williams and Tracy Connor, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2013.

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• In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

  Joe Biden

  Eye, Guy, Looks

  "Mindgames" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 9, 2008.

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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

  Howard Stern

  Heart, Medicine, Sick

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• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Jobs, Eye

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• You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Empathy, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

  Steve Goodier

  Stress, People, Worry

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• I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful. I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence.

  Rihanna

  Mom, Home, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Long, Tough

  Source: whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com

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• I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Ghetto

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• I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

  Danny Brown

  People, Want, Know Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

  Thomas Friedman

  Visits You, Might, Ifs

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.634, Macmillan

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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

  Richard Pryor

  Real, Two, People

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• 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.

  Tim Robbins

  Father, Kids, Guy

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• Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.

  Bob Balaban

  Holocaust, Different, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Democracy

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• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Cities, People

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hollywood, Rich, Grew Up

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.

  Donald E. Westlake

  New York, War, Cities

  Donald E. Westlake (2017). “What's So Funny?”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.

  Bill Taylor

  New Orleans, Cities, Roots

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