Neighborhood Quotes

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

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

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.

Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

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.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

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