Top 471 Neighborhoods Quotes & Sayings

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.

I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

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

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

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

What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

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.

I think our everyday coded language around 'good neighborhoods' and 'bad neighborhoods' is what allows for tremendous violence to happen... When you label a neighborhood 'bad' and avoid it, then you don't know and don't see what goes on there. And there's no human face to interrupt that narrative.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial ties that develop not only with the people in the congregation, but they start meeting each other's families, and their friends, and they go to each other's neighborhoods if they live in different neighborhoods, and at work they meet people they wouldn't otherwise met, and so it creates a whole new definition of what the group is.

The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images, combined with the lack of respect among black people in the poorer neighborhoods for themselves, and the part the police and other people coming into those neighborhoods play, it creates no value for life.

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

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

One of my biggest goals is to spur economic development in communities and neighborhoods that have not had that before.

We lost the connection between the entertainment world and the neighborhoods.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

I always felt uncomfortable with real estate because buildings don't move, and neighborhoods change.

Entrepreneurs are resourceful, resilient, and make such a difference in anchoring our neighborhoods.

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as 'bad' and not worth our attention or investment.

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

What I like to do is have an opportunity to talk with people in neighborhoods and answer their questions one-on-one. I think it's one of the places I have greatest strength.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

I walk around haredi neighborhoods freely, and I actually receive a lot of positive responses from people.

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.

To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.