Quotes About Community

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

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

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

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.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

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

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

We came from a neighborhood that was kind of older, so we didn't have that many kids that would go out and play. We moved into a neighborhood that has, like, 50 kids in it. There are 12 houses where we kind of all share a big backyard, and we're all circled in there. If one kid goes out there, they all go out and play.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.

I love kids. Every time I go around people neighborhood, they're like, 'Biz! Yo Gabba Gabba!' They want me to beatbox all the time for them.

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.