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Quotes About Neighborhoods

Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
~ Rick Famuyiwa
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'
~ Bill Dedman
When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.
~ John Layfield
Some of the friendliest, friendliest people you're going to meet are going to be in Detroit.
~ Keegan-Michael Key
I wanted to show, like, neighborhoods in Canada and Europe and stuff like that are integrated with all of us, you know what I mean? People live together harmoniously and they teach each other culture and they teach each other things that school can't teach you, only real life can teach.
~ Ahmad Balshe
From windows we hear grieving mothers and snow begins to fall on us, like ash Black on edges of flames, it cannot extinguish the neighborhoods, the homes set ablaze by midnight soldiers
~ Agha Shahid Ali
But the market, with its great strengths, is not the appropriate mechanism to supply services that should be distributed equally to people in every neighborhood in every city and town in the nation without regard to their ability to pay or their political power. The market is not the right mechanism to supply police protection or fire protection, nor is it the right mechanism to supply public education.
~ Diane Ravitch
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
~ Gavin Newsom
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
~ Nancy Spain
New York is truly a city of baked goods.
~ Jenny Han
income-segregated neighborhoods are on the rise, isolating—and insulating—the wealthy from the poor. Quartzsite
~ Jessica Bruder
MARTHA'S CHEERY VIEW of things was widely shared by outsiders visiting Germany and especially Berlin. The fact was that on most days in most neighborhoods the city looked and functioned as it always had.
~ Erik Larson
MARTHA'S CHEERY VIEW of things was widely shared by outsiders visiting Germany and especially Berlin. The fact was that on most days in most neighborhoods the city looked and functioned as it always had. The
~ Erik Larson
The bottom line on the declaration, 'This is part of our culture,' is this: At its best, this is a choice made with little or no critical thinking about future results. At its worst, it is merely an excuse to do what one wants to do. It is selfish, leaderless, pack behavior with unconsidered consequences that ultimately destroy families, neighborhoods, cities, and before you know it, generations.
~ Andy Andrews
St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.
~ Andy Cohen
I firmly believe that everybody in America needs a safe place to walk or to wheelchair roll.
~ Vivek Murthy
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
~ Will Smith
My number one priority is the safety of our communities, and particularly the safety of our children.
~ Jamaal Bowman
Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
~ Heather Mac Donald
parents in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience depression, stress, and illness, which in turn "are associated with less warm and consistent parenting.
~ Robert D. Putnam
To allow for the varied learning rates of the children, the classes were combined into what were called "neighborhoods," where children of different ages would progress at their own rates. The early plans envisioned classrooms broken down into fairly narrow age ranges: kindergarten through second grade in one neighborhood, another sixth and seventh together, eighth and ninth in another, and tenth to twelfth grades together.
~ Douglas Frantz
The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
~ Jane Byrne
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
~ Alan Autry