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After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life. — Rick Danko

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend. — Caleb Crain

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler. — Gene Simmons

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault

Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by. — Harold Rosenberg

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood. — William Devane

The neighborhood was at the friction point between sleazy and respectable. — James S.A. Corey

Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man — Stan Lee

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you. — Thomas Friedman

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. — Josh Pais

You reward yourself with daily happy hours at the neighborhood bar after surviving another depressing day at the office. — Hahna Latonick

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee. — Bill Cosby

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped. — Rodney Dangerfield

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean. — Zach Galifianakis

Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go to
the same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — Magda M. Olchawska

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ten-A-Fly took off his sunglasses as if they'd angered him. His scowl aimed for intimidation but seemed more in the neighborhood of constipation. "So — Harlan Coben

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood — William Arthur Dunkerley

The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood. — Steven Johnson

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. — Johnnetta B. Cole

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands. — Gene Simmons

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. — George Eliot

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. — Betty Smith

The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. — Victoria Kahler

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame. — Joy Bryant

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis. — Mike Judge

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. — Murray Kempton

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. — Ed Koch

In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart. — Tana French

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. — Rabindranath Tagore

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen

I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed. — Masanobu Fukuoka

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again. — George Jones

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces. — Ross Macdonald

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch. — Bill Cosby

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. — Beverly Cleary

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. — Ada Yonath

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. — Hunter S. Thompson

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown. — Jojo

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200. — Paul Popenoe

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood. — David Berkowitz

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy) — Wendell Berry

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do. — John Garfield

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being. — Chita Rivera

Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques. — Victor LaValle

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out. — Carmelo Anthony

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses. — Stephanie Kwolek

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20. — Bo Jackson

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. — Anne Lamott

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. — Hesiod

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. — Beverly Cleary

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it. Nature offers healing for a child living in a destructive family or neighborhood. — Richard Louv

We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well. — S.E. Hinton

I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon? — Rocky Graziano

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood. — Sylvester Stallone

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood. — Junot Diaz

Maximum Rocknroll
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco? — Bucky Sinister

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit. — Lauren Francis-Sharma

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. — Frank Shorter

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street. — William H. Whyte

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. — Al Smith

In my neighborhood ... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away. — Curtis Jackson

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. — Roger Wicker

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine? — Fred Rogers

She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli. — David Sedaris

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like. — Kylie Jenner

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods. — Cheech Marin

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. — Jon Voight

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life. — Craig Venter

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. — Lloyd Banks

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops. — Ed Begley Jr.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone. — Marc Levy

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. — Roberto Bolano

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California. — Susan Straight

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors. — Kirby Wright

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. — Dick Gregory

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. — Wendell Berry

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed. — Rand Paul

You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. — Travis Bradberry

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. — Mike Wallace

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name
suits you, rediscover the art of meandering. — Gina Greenlee

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. — Gail Ann Dorsey

Sometimes you have to find the sunny side of the street in a weird neighborhood. — Kim Stagliano

neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' — Diana Gabaldon

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in? — Jim Gaffigan

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

Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood. — Jenny Trout

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. — Chris Rock

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood. — Seth Godin

Your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. — Augusten Burroughs

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. — Paul Engle

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote. — Andrew Vachss