Neighborhood Quotes
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Neighborhood Quotes & Sayings
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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
The neighborhood was at the friction point between sleazy and respectable.
— James S.A. Corey
If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.
— Thomas Friedman
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 tothe 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
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 summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.
— Victoria Kahler
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
Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
— Anne Lamott
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
— Beverly Cleary
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
Maximum Rocknrolldidn'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
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
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
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
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
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 namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering. — Gina Greenlee
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
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
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
