Neighbourhoods Quotes

• Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.

  Billy Graham

  Our World, Brotherhood, Becoming

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• The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Cutting, Emotional, Names

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• Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.

  Helen Prejean

  Fear, Media, People

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• When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Stories, Language

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• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  Q-Tip

  Thug, Track, Special

  "The tipping point" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night

  Christiane Northrup

  Night, Mind, Mental Health

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• Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

  David Suzuki

  Backyards, Parks, Next

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine

  Roy MacGregor

  Country, Home, Winter

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• Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.

  Mordecai Richler

  Country, New York, Men

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• Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Rivers, Levels

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.173, VM eBooks

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• If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.

  Joseph John Thomson

  Rays, Ordinary, Molecules

  "Cathode rays". Philosophical Magazine, (44, 293), 1897.

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• Let us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, India, Satellites

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• We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, People, Energy

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

  Inspectah Deck

  Rap, Troops, Pakistan

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• My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

  Ezra Koenig

  Dad, College, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

  Louise Lester

  Favourite, Neighbour

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• I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Cousin, School, Kids

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous yellow talons, still and silent like a gargoyle in full sunlight. I took a swig from the bottle and set it so I could still see the creatures reflection. Nude and hairless, it didn't carry a single ounce of fat on its lean frame. Its skin stretched so tight over the cords of muscle, it threatened to snap. Like a thin layer of wax melted over an anatomy model. Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Reflection, Yellow

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• You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

  Jane Jacobs

  Lying, Real, Artist

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.101, Vintage

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• On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Morning, Believe, Sunday

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.126, Profile Books

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• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Home, School, Gang Members

  "Together we can beat the gangs" by Iain Duncan Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  Gary Oldman

  Kids, Boys, Soul

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• I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

  Juno Temple

  Littles, Sticks, Restaurants

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