Quotes About Neighborhoods

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.

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

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.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

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.

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.

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.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.