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Quotes About Neighborhoods

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.
~ Lori Lightfoot
I grew up around so many different people in so many different neighborhoods, but the Latino heritage, the neighborhoods, and people have always been a part of my life, ever since I was a kid.
~ Roy Choi
I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.
~ London Breed
There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.
~ London Breed
I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.
~ Majora Carter
From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.
~ Prodigy
I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.
~ Roy Choi
Military families are increasingly living away from military bases, embedded in civilian neighborhoods. It gives military families and civilians the opportunity for greater exposure to one another, yet many feel lonely and isolated.
~ Brianna Keilar
I was going to different neighborhoods around Brooklyn battling cats back in - this started in '82, so that's like eighth grade. Maybe 13, 14.
~ Big Daddy Kane
The government should take all responsibility to continue with the social appeasement projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods to improve people's conditions.
~ Jovenel Moise
Building trust between the community and police department is crucial. It makes the department stronger and our neighborhoods safer.
~ Kevin Faulconer
We must continue to fundamentally change how City Hall invests in neighborhoods by prioritizing areas where the need is greatest.
~ Kevin Faulconer
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
~ Sammy Cahn
Cadogan Place is the one slight bond that joins two great extremes; it is the connecting link between the aristocratic pavements of Belgrave Square, and the barbarism of Chelsea.
~ Charles Dickens
Dear taco trucks: Please consider cruising the neighborhoods like ice cream trucks.
~ Internet meme
from the nearby New York City boroughs
~ James Patterson
We have to have a mayor who is going to be independent, particularly of our city labor unions, to ensure that the dollars that we have saved are reinvested back into our neighborhoods.
~ Kevin Faulconer
I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.
~ Alice Waters
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
~ Melissa McCarthy
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.
~ Michelle Wu
We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as 'bad' and not worth our attention or investment.
~ Ayanna Pressley
His superaverage midwestern town, meanwhile, has followed the same trajectory. Even as Republican economic policy laid waste to the city's industries, unions, and neighborhoods, the townsfolk responded by lashing out on cultural issues, eventually winding up with a hard-right Republican congressman
~ Thomas Frank
Many people who live in expensive homes and drive luxury cars do not actually have much wealth. Then, we discovered something even odder: Many people who have a great deal of wealth do not even live in upscale neighborhoods.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
~ Thomas Menino