Neighborhood Quotes

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here. Rose Namajunas
Nothing Nice Live Neighborhood Around Very Goes Really Here
We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure. Roxane Gay
Home Great Family Black Parents Neighborhood Secure Black Family Only Could Feel Haitian Safe Were Years Providing Often Where Wherever Loving Really Certainly Many Lived
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. Ruben Blades
Neighborhood About Sing Sort Began Thirteen
Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. Ruby Dee
People Relationships Benevolent Neighborhood Scary Both Were Apart Gangsters Lived
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. Rudolph A. Marcus
Me Mother Later Neighborhood Tell Would About She Go Years Campus Wheel McGill Used Lived
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. Russell Baker
Natural Dark Glasses Neighborhood Hoping Rush About Something Shameful Put Head Instinct Nobody County Doing Been After Boasting Next Notices Street
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare. Ryan Coogler
Money School Rare Parents Tough Clothes Too Back Neighborhood Wearing Pretty Had Catholic Catholic School Because Still Came Lot Fit American African African Americans Which Little Much Two
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months. Said Sayrafiezadeh
Good Good Job Job Edge Year Living Design Strike Months Ghetto Neighborhood City About Fired Drivers Had Studio Becoming Verge Been Just Where Pittsburgh Bus Worked Four
You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered. Sal Albanese
You Together People Neighborhood Economic Fairness Another Around Issue Goes Gets Mayor Want Bring
When you see a superhero that looks like you and lives in and fights in a neighborhood that is sort of like yours, it's empowering to a degree that makes you have hope. That is the power of storytelling, and that is the power of images. Salim Akil
Hope You Degree Power Neighborhood See Superhero Like Looks Empowering Sort Makes Storytelling Fights Yours Lives Images
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. Scott Turow
Spiritual Class Parents Jews Side Neighborhood Blacks Park Well Catholics Unwelcome Equivalent Were Blocks West Chicago Up Rogers North Upper Upper-Class Moved Where Grew Suburb Illinois Many Suffered Jewish
People come to a show, then they go back to their neighborhood, and it has become like word-of-mouth. Everybody loves to turn somebody on to something. It kind of just snowballed. Sebastian Maniscalco
People Somebody Become Everybody Back Neighborhood Kind Something Come Like Go Just Word-Of-Mouth Loves Turn Then Show
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish. Shay Mitchell
Mom Neighborhood Caucasian Up Irish Grew Dad
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. Shia LaBeouf
Life Great You Fight Mother Mind Lost Live Astronaut Neighborhood Great Life Someone Look Accountant Hits Anything Whether Anyway Mean Much Your Rough Star Now
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. Shia LaBeouf
Youth Racism School White Kid Neighborhood High High School Only Most Reverse Just Apparent Even
My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that. Sonja Sohn
You People Perception Own Took Saw Neighborhood My Own No Reason Came Up Child Loved Them Your Reason Away Cops
Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level. Sonja Sohn
You Community Caring Nurtured Neighborhood Though Some Something Had Knew Wrong Felt Spots Caught Doing Were Up Get Where Want Grew Unhealthy Even Bright Elements Level
Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses. Stephanie Kwolek
Me Interviews Later Papers Neighborhood Kids Term Come Always Got Grades Them Ask Even
As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say. Sterling K. Brown
Time People Black Say Kid Neighborhood Out Would Easy Easy Thing About Something Putting Like Missouri Talked Sure Always Been Time People Up Very Heartbeat Louis St. Louis Any Growing Lived Growing Up Thing Slave Slavery
Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options. Steve Allen
Learning Experience Comedy Challenge Joke Defense Neighborhood Physical Writers Shared Comedians Protect Were Bullies Options Childhood Sensible Themselves Many Among
I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood. Steve Bannon
Neighborhood Raised
I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood. Steven Seagal
Black Neighborhood Born Detroit
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. Steven Spielberg
Home Dramas Neighborhood Kids Since Comedies Making Lot Little Movies Twelve
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built. Susan Faludi
You Women Everybody Neighborhood Would Divorced Like Freight Got Built Been Wonder Train Hit Movement Happened Suburbs
Turning your engine off while sitting in your car is not only a no brainer, but it can also lead to peace on earth... in my neighborhood, anyway. Suzy Shuster
Peace Car Earth Neighborhood Only Lead Also Off Sitting Anyway While Turning Your Engine
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop. Sxip Shirey
Live Neighborhood Hop Guys Sound Hip Hip-Hop Lot Shops Auto Door Really Next Next Door Body Filled Play
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