Quotes About Community

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

My neighborhood, Coconut Grove, we always played in the streets. It was corner against corner. We all had football teams. Different neighborhoods.

Home was never a safe place for me. I felt safer on the streets.

I started playing football in the streets.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

I'm in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were those friendships.

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

I began playing football on the streets.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.

Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.

I used to play football on the streets, kicking breadfruits or oranges.

I know what the streets want to hear, I know what the streets going through, the lingo, the fashion, everything. It ain't nothing; it's my real life.

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.