Quotes About Neighborhood

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City' did to my neighborhood.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

I've always said we need to build resilience locally.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that.

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

People don't get signed by Def Jam every day on my block.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

Spending so much time stuffing everything that lent itself to filling in any way or form, I am not surprised that the Jerusalemites never had time to raise their heads or look out of their windows to see what their neighbours were up to.

It's a parallel world. It's a gothic forest. It's a bluish valley. It's a deep gorge. It's a déjà vu. It's a sleeping town. It's an old neighborhood. It's a familiar house. You go up the stairs of your future. You discover the source of your past. Your present is hidden behind a secret door. Your space is reflected in the windows. You find a chess game in the attic. The formula of your happiness is decrypted. A voice whispers your name: you recreate your identity.

y caminar por ese barrio, pasada cierta hora de la noche, era provocar demasiado a la suerte.

el Barrio de las Letras, el barrio en el que habían establecido su residencia estudiantes, artistas, escritores, pintores, el barrio donde Madrid no cierra ni siquiera al amanecer.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

Si en esta casa hubiera hierbas, ya te encargarías de traer a pastar las ovejas del vecindario.

In the porch of one house Jake saw a skateboard and it made his heart jump: a Santa Cruz, one of the expensive ones. He'd begged for one for years. He looked at the house, its closed curtains. There was a child in there, maybe a boy same age as him, dreaming in a bed, who had a Santa Cruz,