Neighborhood Quotes - Page 32

• In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

  Curtis Jackson

  Views, Police, Loved Ones

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• I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Girl, White, Littles

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• Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

  Mike Judge

  Block, Kids, Names

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• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  Victoria Justice

  Exercise, Riding, Active

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• I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

  Alicia Keys

  Tough, Grew Up, Grew

  "Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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

  Wiz Khalifa

  Growing Up, Knowing, Different

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Society, Cleaning, Festering

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• Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Children, White

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mother, Stars, Mean

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• My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

  Denis Leary

  Cousin, Couple, Fire

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

  John Legend

  Football, Athlete, School

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• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Cities, House

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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

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• One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

  Ricky Martin

  Next Day, People, One Day

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• Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, School, Support

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• Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

  Gavin Newsom

  Economic, Wells, Street Life

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• My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

  Bill O'Reilly

  New York, Children, Father

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• I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

  Camille Paglia

  Philadelphia, Personality, Stronger

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• And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Real, Book

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  Rand Paul

  Children, School, Color

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Real, Mosques

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• I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

  John C. Reilly

  Hard Work, Men, Class

  "Conquer Your Shortcomings". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

  Ann Richards

  Country, Believe, Play

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• 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

  Different, Remember, Stills

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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