Quotes About Community

I'm from the 805, man. I don't have to talk about where I'm from, but I'm tough.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

I love where I'm from, but it's a tough, poverty-stricken area.

It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.

When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action.

When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.

When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

I never understood the importance of fans until we struggled and went through tough times.

When I do well, I don't really feel it for me, I feel it for the people who have supported me through good times, but also through tough times.

Yes, this is our job, but when we're having rough days and when we're going through tough times, we can all come to the gym and come to the locker room and let everything out.

No matter what kind of tough times you're going through, if you can get a night out with friends and really just lose yourself in the music, that's just straight-up good for you, you know?

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

I've been to a lot of different cities around the world. People in Philly are a lot different... We're raised a little more street-smart. We're raised a little tougher. We're raised to never back down and to hold our ground.

Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.

I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.

Serving as a police officer is the toughest job in our country. As they put themselves on the line to keep us safe, they deserve our gratitude and support.

I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.

When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to.