Quotes About Community

I've been in some fights in my neighborhood before.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

I like coming back home. Do it every July Fourth. Everybody's cooking, and I'm just being Ben, just Ben, like the little kid I was running around the neighborhood.

I grew up in the streets in Boston in a row-home neighborhood playing hockey.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

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

It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

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

HubSpot is divided into 'neighborhoods,' each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

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

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

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

Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.