Quotes About Neighborhood

If more than two percent of the neighborhood goes to prison, Clear concluded, the effect on crime starts to reverse.

neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of

The studies show essentially that a child is better off in a good neighborhood in a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood in a good family.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

Brian Williams, whom Mal knew slightly, who was playing with toy trucks in his front yard while his mother sat on the porch steps with his baby brother. Mal waved to Mrs. Williams and called hello to Brain.

Gentrification is a public policy for managing strangers: a way of removing those who would be eyesores; those who would reduce the value of a neighborhood; those whose proximity would be registered as price.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.

She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.

We were supposed to go to the sea and we hadn't gone, I had been punished for nothing. A mysterious inversion of attitudes had occurred: I, despite the rain, would have continued on the road, I felt far from everything and everyone, and distance--I discovered for the first time--extinguished in me every tie and every worry; Lila had abruptly repented of her own plan, she had given up the sea, she had wanted to return to the confines of the neighborhood. I couldn't figure it out.

Was it Lila who had persuaded Stefano to behave in a way that was making them the most admired and most talked about couple in the neighborhood? Was this her latest invention? Did she want to leave the neighborhood by staying in the neighborhood? Did she want to drag us out of ourselves, tear off the old skin and put on a new one, suitable for what she was inventing?

To cause pain was a disease. As a child I imagined tiny, almost invisible animals that arrived in the neighborhood at night, they came from the ponds, from the abandoned train cars beyond the embankment, from the stinking grasses called fetienti, from the frogs, the salamanders, the flies, the rocks, the dust, and entered the water and the food and the air, making our mothers, our grandmothers as angry as starving dogs.

Depressed I went out into the heat that lay on the neighborhood like a hand swollen with fever in that season, and made my way to the library.

I left. Just now that I was becoming a writer, there was no one in the entire neighborhood capable of saying: What an extraordinary thing you've done.

Cand o vedeai, emana o stralucire care parea o palma foarte violenta peste fata saraciei din cartier.

Scriveva, nelle ultime pagine, di sentirsi intorno tutto il male del rione. Anzi, buttava li oscuramente: male e bene sono mescolati e si rinforzano a vicenda. Marcello, a rifletterci, era veramente una buona sistemazione, ma il buono sapeva di cattivo e il cattivo sapeva di buono, un'amalgama che le toglieva il fiato.

Mia madre vedeva sempre il male dove con mio grande fastidio si scopriva presto o tardi che il male c'era davvero, e il suo occhio strabico pareva fatto apposta per individuare i movimenti segreti del rione.

Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.

A person who is truly good in nature does not get even a good support from own people in the neighbourhood.

In a racially separated world, it's possible to have racial disadvantage without racial prejudice. Whites can turn for help to white neighbors with good connections in the plant. Blacks turn to black neighbors without them.