Neighborhood Quotes - Page 8

• I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

  Jimmy Carter

  Government, People, Use

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• Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Cities, Degradation

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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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• . . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

  David Dinkins

  New York, Hard Work, Cities

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• One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

  Florence King

  Artist, America, Order

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• I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

  John Dewey

  Children, Real, Believe

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.87, SIU Press

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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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• I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Two, Guy, Radio

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• Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.

  Jordan Peele

  African American, Legends, Kind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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• We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Thinking, Safe, Quiet

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• Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.

  Gina Barreca

  Girl, Italian, Looks

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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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• I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Kids, Frustration

  "John Kasich: Hunting down undocumented immigrants is 'not what America is'". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 19, 2015.

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• Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Problem, Solutions

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• We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Land, Vision, Levels

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.

  Sarah Palin

  Thinking, Cities, Borders

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

  Chris Rose

  Love Life, Creativity, Joy

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

  Piper Perabo

  Morning, New York, Coffee

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

  Ai Weiwei

  Keys, Hands, Walks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

  Michael K. Williams

  Strong, Growing Up, Italian

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Educational, Choices

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Believe

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• My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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