Neighborhood Quotes - Page 20

• Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

  Bill Lipinski

  Issues, Safety, Community

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• I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading “What We See”. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods.

  Nancy Milford

  Reading, Writing, Vision

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• So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world

  Fred Thompson

  Long, World, Spheres

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• A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

  Murray Kempton

  Beats

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Scarcity, Anxious

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in congregations. We called this democracy into being – and if we want to call this democracy back to its highest values, it’s got to be the us doing that calling. That’s not going to happen if ‘We the People’ don’t know how to talk to one another with civility and hold our differences in a creative, life-giving way.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Hard Work, Home, Ideas

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• What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.

  Walker Percy

  Morning, Simple, Islands

  "The Moviegoer: A Novel".

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• Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

  Walker Percy

  Old Neighborhood, Emptiness, Shows

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer: A Novel”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.

  Darren Hayes

  Exercise, Thinking, Voice

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• A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

  John Ciardi

  City Life, Areas

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• The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,

  Phil Zimmermann

  Internet, Crime, Wells

  "Privacy guru locks down voip" by Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. July 26, 2005.

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• Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Dad, Moving, School

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Bad Day, America, Usa

  "Pataki invokes 9/11 in Bush introduction". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Children, Book, Past

  John Kendrick Bangs (2014). “The Autobiography of Methuselah”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Thinking, Helping, Should

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• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

  John Powell

  Poverty, Seven

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• 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

  War, People, Baltimore

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• Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Mean, Intelligent, Speak English

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Peace, Community

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

  Confucius

  Beauty, Wise, Names

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Life, Community, Planets

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• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Queens, Different, Manhattan

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• Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Scripture, Realizing

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.108, Ignatius Press

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