Neighborhood Quotes - Page 22

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

  James Pike

  Jesus, People, Clubs

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

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  My Favorite, Form, Restaurants

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

  Susan Faludi

  Movement, Wonder, Divorced

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• It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.

  Randall Wright

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

  George Burns

  Funny, God, Humorous

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• I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

  Jim Rohn

  Knowledge, America, People

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• Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Giving

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• We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

  Sara Seager

  Moon, Space, Generations

  "Life beyond Earth seems 'inevitable', US planetary scientist says", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

  Gary Snyder

  Sight, Cities, San Francisco

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• Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

  Kitty Kelley

  Clinton, Restaurants, Barack

  "Kelley pulls curtain back on Camelot" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Bigger

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

  Darius Rucker

  School, Kids, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Block, School, Opportunity

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• 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

  Girl, Ghetto, Kind

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• As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

  Jane Byrne

  Mistake, Thinking, Campaigns

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

  Jane Byrne

  Jobs, Government, People

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

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Work Out, Adequate

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• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

  Terry Brooks

  Winter, Boys, Three

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Funeral

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

  Sarah Schulman

  Art, World, Program

  "AIDS and (Its) Gentrification" by Alan Davies, www.poetryfoundation.org. April 9, 2013.

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• My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

  Sonja Sohn

  Children, People, Perception

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