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Quotes About Neighborhood

The Theresa desegregated in 1940, after the neighborhood tipped over from Jews and Italians and became the domain of Southern blacks and West Indians. Everyone who came uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean.
~ Colson Whitehead
Monday night was chapter-meeting night in Greek town, and there was a reverent hush in the neighborhood. Decisions and rules and amendments to rules were being developed throughout the area, and it was like a grand corporation manufacturing a variety of brands, all tested, all ready to compete with one another.
~ Vin Packer
quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-
~ Lauren Tarshis
streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-shaped cloud in the bright blue sky when squealing shouts echoed from just ahead. "Dexter! Dexter! Buy some lemonade!" Two identical blond heads bounced up over a rosebush. It was the little Tucker twins, Stephanie and Bobbie.
~ Lauren Tarshis
In Joey's neighborhood the blocks were short and there were stop signs on every corner. It was hard to get going more than fifteen miles an hour, and on those lazy streets Joey's refurbished 1973 El Dorado convertible got about eight blocks to the gallon.
~ Laurence Shames
On their old street, each house is a different drab shade: tan, dirty cream, the washed-out gray of tattered laundry: as if all the color has leached away since his childhood. Slope shouldered, listing slightly to one side, they resemble old ladies, their clothing grown shabby and loose.
~ Celeste Ng
Actually, my attention was on a pretty Irish girl sitting in the stands with the sweetest smile on her face. I was trying to show off for her. Her name was Mary Leddy, and I had seen her in the neighborhood, but I had never spoken to her. Pretty soon she was going to change her name to Mrs. Francis J. Sheeran, but she didn't know that then sitting there in the third row, laughing along with the rest of the crowd. Between
~ Charles Brandt
Having him for a father was a nightmare. We couldn't go to him with a problem because of our fear of the horrible things he would do to fix it for us. He thought he was protecting us with the way he handled things, but it was just the opposite. We didn't get protected by him because we were too afraid to go to him for protection. A neighborhood man exposed himself to me and I couldn't tell my father.
~ Charles Brandt
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
~ Charles Dickens
Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.
~ Graham McNamee
And if your neighborhood still suffers under the tyranny of Taco Bell and combo plates? Fear not -- Mexican food is coming to wow you, to save you from a bland life, as it did for your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. Again. Like last time -- and the time before that.
~ Gustavo Arellano
I'd been seen the day before in a neighborhood that wasn't up to revolutionary standards, photographing a pile of garbage cans. It's forbidden. Garbage is not a good souvenir of North Korea. There are so many beautiful things to photograph.
~ Guy Delisle
He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
It sat proudly atop the hill behind wrought-iron gates, with smooth lawns, tennis courts, and shiny classroom buildings, a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance, glowing like a phoenix above the ramshackle neighborhood of Chicken Hill.
~ James McBride
Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from The Bottom and wanna get home in one piece.
~ James McBride
James Patterson
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Well, they can't have done it to every camera in the neighborhood," Loughlin said. "We'll pick them up.
~ James Patterson
Australia was basically an island full of monsters. "Man, that is one scary place!" I muttered, and switched the channel to something more soothing—a show about a friendly neighborhood serial killer.
~ James Patterson
Our neighborhood had more than its share of challenges, from poverty to crime to unhealthy air. It may not have been the safest neighborhood, but my mom felt blessed that we had the sanctuary of a backyard. And we had a strong sense of community.
~ Alex Padilla
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
~ Frances Mayes
Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
~ Danny Meyer
In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.
~ Kodi Smit-McPhee
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
~ Michelle Obama
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
~ Jim Fowler