Quotes About Community

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.

I always played football with my friends on the streets of Eure, in Normandy, not far from Paris.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

Where we lived was a nice residential area, but if you know Rio, you understand you can be 100 metres from a favela. It could be a little dangerous on the streets, especially at night.

Our streets should be safe at all times. You shouldn't have to worry about things like knife or other crime.

My football comes from the streets.

As a kid, we used to play wearing a Liverpool shirt in the streets.

My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

Now, walking in the streets, people seem to have become richer and more willing to consume. It seems like everybody is ushering in a better future. This has given me great satisfaction and driven me to do more.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

I love putting in work for the city that raised me with my foundation SaveMoneySaveLife, and putting resources into the streets of Chicago.

But like everyone else I've come to the sad realisation food banks are an all-too-common feature on the streets of Britain.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

It took a lot of sacrifice from my dad. He managed to put cricket nets in our garden because he knew we had to practise every day. That would also keep us away from the streets.

I'm happy that kids are getting off the streets and making their families proud.

Be in no doubt: we are completely committed to make sure we support young people with the additional resources that are necessary to give them the alternatives to the offer that's put forward by the terrible criminals on the streets.

As long as I can keep one child off the streets or change one child's life for the better, then that's enough for me.

I go by 'Papi' on the streets.