Top 1200 Neighborhood Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

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.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.

Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

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

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly goes nuts and then you find half the neighborhood in his freezer." I gotta admit, that one stumped me for a second - but only for a second. "Which half?" I asked. "Huh?" "Which half of the neighborhood? Could you make it the people on the other side of Avenue T, because I never really liked them anyway.

Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.

We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

I've been in some fights in my neighborhood before.

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently Americans thought the names of places were just too complicated so they got decent maps of Baghdad and just renamed everything with familiar names. This neighborhood would be Hollywood, that neighborhood would be Manhattan, and that one's Madison, you're going to drive down Oak and take a left on Main Street.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

Build. Transform. Love. These are words I use all the time as we speak about community building and even real estate development because these are the kind of communities, like, we want to show you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one. And when people think about living in a neighborhood, they are not thinking about fight - the community of their dreams, they are not fighting in it, they are not struggling in it. It's not, "Oh, I gotta put on my armor." All the time. I don't want to live like that. I don't.

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

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

I grew up in the neighborhood where 'Rocky' came from.

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not allowed to enter in certain areas? We used to ask my father why the Christians lived in another neighborhood and didn’t come to our neighborhood. I think my father was trying to avoid having us think about these issues.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man