The Neighborhood Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Neighborhood

The 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

I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot! — Elsa Morante

Yeah, right, like Catherine Deneuve has her own hot-guy SWAT team trolling the neighborhood for celebrity stalkers with swords - Kate (Die For Me) — Amy Plum

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

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

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 am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. — Cara Buono

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

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. — E.L. Konigsburg

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

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. — Ed Bradley

I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone. — Steven Wright

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

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. — John Ciardi

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

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here. — Alan Keyes

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. — Shia Labeouf

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

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way. — Angela Merkel

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't. — Jennifer Weiner

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

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

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good. — Bessie Smith

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

No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else's play. — Genevieve Dewey

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place. — Anthony Mackie

Didn't you say she lives in Josh's neighborhood? Mrs. Leighton asks. I think I actually hear her loading the bullets into that question. — Katja Millay

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. — Joel Kinnaman

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. — Luis Palau

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong. — Matt Chandler

Don't forget to leave your handprints on the ones you love and your footprints around the neighborhood. — Lisa C. Miller

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids. — Daniella Monet

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood. — Anthony Fauci

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. — Konrad Adenauer

People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood. — Mark Noble

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood. — Bruce Davison

For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle. — Kat Zhang

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks. — Ron Brackin

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

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. — Bill Schuette

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave. — Rachel Cohn

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are. — Julia Spencer-Fleming

You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy. — Frankie Valli

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. — Benicio Del Toro

We lived loud and hard against a neighborhood built to contain us. We moved like the earth pushing its way through cement sidewalks. — Gabby Rivera

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry. — Danzy Senna

Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village. — Rachel Cohn

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything. — Wilma Rudolph

The whole world is one neighborhood. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me. — Carmine Giovinazzo

The whole neighborhood knew about her and her friendly pussy. _ — Markita Hall

If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the soul of the neighborhood. — Michael Franti

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. — Sherman Hemsley

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood. — Buffalo Bill

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood. — John Scalzi

But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget. — Zipha Keatley Snyder

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. — Harvey Milk

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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