Neighborhood Quotes - Page 27

• We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

  Dick Durbin

  Police, Needs, Safe

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

  Laura Miller

  Real, Cities, People

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

  Alan Keyes

  Stupid, Thinking, Republican

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• Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Curves, Cities

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• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  Dabney Coleman

  New York, Airplane, School

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• A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Environmental, Common

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• 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

  Tree, Citizens, Next

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• When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

  Malcolm X

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Yield, Class

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• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, People, Community

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• We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.

  Pope Francis

  Grieving, Order, People

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• Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake

  "Fireflies".

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• Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Natural, Should

  "The Needed Resurgence of Trade Schools" by Tobias Roberts, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2017.

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• The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Real, Brotherhood

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Travel, People, Energy

  WhiteWalls magazine, Vol. 36-38, p. 45, 1995.

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• As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

  Jonathan Lethem

  Growing Up, Children, White

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Peaceful

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• Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

  Renzo Piano

  Beautiful, Years, Cities

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• I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

  Judah Friedlander

  Fancy

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• You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through  our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hard Work, Thinking, Self

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• My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Cousin, Children, Father

  "Being Black and 'Difficult' in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

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• The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

  Marla Gibbs

  Children, Cities, Role Models

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• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  Nathan Fillion

  Running, Home, Doors

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• Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.

  Tom Piazza

  Brass Bands, Play, Dancing

  Tom Piazza (2009). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone's housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here's a business incentives, so that people can get jobs.

  Eric Bolling

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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