Neighborhood Quotes - Page 7

• Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

  Don Rickles

  Kings, Kids, Comedian

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Forever, Use

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Community, Brooklyn, Littles

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• Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

  Ice Cube

  Important, World, Sometimes

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2010.

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• We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Jobs, Responsibility

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• The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.

  Eric Bolling

  People, Affordable Housing, May

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Couple, Children, Boys

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• The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.

  Katie Pavlich

  Moving, Hard Work, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Squares, Cities, People

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Citizens, Should, Immigrants

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny neighborhoods, therefore, being solidified by the compact texture of their fiber, and not being porous from moisture, are very useful, so far as durability goes, when they are hewn into timber. The lowland firs, being conveyed from sunny places, are better than those highland firs, which are brought here from shady places.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Tree, Moisture, Texture

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter X "Highland and Lowland Fir", Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

  Snoop Dogg

  Nice, Might, Scared

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

  Michael De Luca

  Kids, Brooklyn, Saws

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• I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.

  George Pelecanos

  Blue, Care, Collars

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.

  Jack Welch

  Moving, Thinking, Reason

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• Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Powerful, Book, Character

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• I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

  Dan Buettner

  Water, Bumps, Neighbor

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheism, Population, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson (1899). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Thinking, Practice

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.111, Penguin

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

  William Castle

  Trying, Neighbor, Discouraging

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• What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Breathing Space, Aggravation, Absence

  Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

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• Night is a curious child, wandering
  Between earth and sky, creeping
  In windows and doors, daubing
  The entire neighborhood
  With purple paint.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Children, Night, Sky

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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