Quotes About Community

I definitely feel like you have an influence. I'm 21 years old, and I'm thinking about the kids that are from my neighborhood, from my community, that are looking up to me and seeing me handle myself a certain way, so I do feel a responsibility in that sense to handle myself a certain way in front of those guys.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse.

When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It's never delightful to glamorize one's youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.

You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then you can live your whole lifetime hearing gunshots all the time.

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

I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some reason, that time in history in our town in New York, everybody played. So it was all around me.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.