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Neighborhoods that mainly operated at night had a way of looking a lot worse in the morning. — William Gibson

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly. — Mark Bradford

I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating. — Shana Abe

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. — Brandon Stanton

I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods. — George Burns

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods ... and real ethics reform at City Hall. — Laura Miller

Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams. — Colson Whitehead

The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other's business. — Tana French

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

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well. — Gavin Newsom

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. — Wiz Khalifa

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. — Ronald J. Garan Jr.

when only poor people use something, no one takes care of it. Roads, schools, neighborhoods. Subways too. — Adam Sternbergh

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered ... just one kind word to another person. — Fred Rogers

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long. — Bill Dedman

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time. — Christopher Bollen

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. — Terry Tempest Williams

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy. — Maria Semple

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. — John A. Powell

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business. — Rick Scott

Jesus' fathomless love changes how you and I will live in our moments, how we'll love in our neighborhoods, and what we'll be known for in eternity. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. — Rodney Dangerfield

Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm. — Ben Elliot

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. — George W. Bush

Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night. — Katherine McIntyre

There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It — T. S. Eliot

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

Arcadia is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in all of Arizona, and I love living here. — Peter Sperling

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup. — Melissa McCarthy

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray. — Wolfgang Schauble

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods. — Jared Kushner

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house. — Rick Bayless

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede. — Karl Hess

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. — Thomas Friedman

This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. — Gary Shteyngart

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

Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux. — Wylie Dufresne

...bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs. — J.D. Vance

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. — Malcolm X

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods. — Dorothy Day

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. — Darell Hammond

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change. — Ani DiFranco

It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself. — James Pike

I've never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood. — Orhan Pamuk

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial. — Richard Montanari

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. — Jane Byrne

In other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs. This — J.D. Vance

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation. — Paul Cook

Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods. — Elizabeth Warren

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past. — Jane Byrne

The police did not like to come to neighborhoods like this one, where the best they could hope for was hostile indifference. — Jeff Lindsay

Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time ... in the process. — Timothy Pina

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. — Truman Capote

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. — Jane Byrne

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. — Jane Bryant Quinn

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families. — Rosalynn Carter

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today. — John McCain

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved. — Jane Byrne

I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA. — Mauricio Cienfuegos

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard. — Andrew Vachss

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. — Jens Stoltenberg

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. — Ann Richards

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light ... — Nick Gordon

What else is a nation but a patchwork of cities and towns; cities and towns a patchwork of neighborhoods; and neighborhoods a patchwork of homes? — Matthew Desmond

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.' — Bill Dedman

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. — Confucius

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount Jr.

Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods. — Michelle Alexander

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve. — Jennifer Granholm

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. — Gwen Ifill