Quotes About Neighborhood

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

Iran is not in any sort of routine groupings. It's not an Arab country. It's not part of the Indian subcontinent. So it's in a neighborhood where it has some unique characteristics. We are a country which embraced Islam, learned Arabic, but didn't change its language or its culture... That's what keeps us unique.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there.

We came from a neighborhood that was kind of older, so we didn't have that many kids that would go out and play. We moved into a neighborhood that has, like, 50 kids in it. There are 12 houses where we kind of all share a big backyard, and we're all circled in there. If one kid goes out there, they all go out and play.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.

Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.