Quotes About Community

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

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

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

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

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

We think, over the long term, the real key to value of a bank is does it have true deposits from true long-term customers? People who actually know the bank, live in the neighborhood, work there, maybe have a mortgage there, credit card... That, to us, is the key to a bank.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

I think it's a true blessing and great opportunity for me to represent, not only New York boxing, but coming from Brownsville where boxing has been the essence of the neighborhood.

He was the father of the neighborhood and the voice of reason for everyone. Everything I needed to know to run my business and to be a good human being, I got right here from my father.

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.

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.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I grew up in the neighborhood where Eric Garner died. No one knows that about me.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!