Quotes About Neighborhood

When you see the neighborhood that you grew up in being underwater, either you can sit down and look like everybody else, or you can get up and go try to help somebody that needs to be helped.

I was doing unemployment for a little bit and then I started a dog-walking business in my neighborhood. I went to FedEx and started printing out some flyers and hung them up around my neighborhood. Then I started walking people's dogs for a couple months.

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.

815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia.

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

I have not seen a community more giving than St. Louis.

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

Blinking through the fading light and the gently falling snow, she thought for a moment the neighborhood they were driving through looked oddly familiar, though she was sure she'd never been here before.

Take away fatherhood, and you kill womanhood, childhood, brotherhood—the entire neighborhood. Shoot the head, and you've killed the whole body.2

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.